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title: When she heard the farmer coming she was frightened, and begged the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When she heard the farmer coming she was frightened, and begged the sexton to hide himself in a large empty chest that stood in the room. Who acts: best, farmer, large empty chest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 35

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When she heard the farmer coming she was frightened, and begged the sexton to hide himself in a large empty chest that stood in the room.

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**Who acts:** best, farmer, large empty chest · **What happens:** hear, come, frighten, beg, hide, stand · **To what, where:** farmer, best, sexton, large empty chest, room

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, farmer, large empty chest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:71:35
# text = When she heard the farmer coming she was frightened, and begged the sexton to hide himself in a large empty chest that stood in the room.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sexton	sexton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | best *= good* | the farmer |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | best *= good* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  | the sexton |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent sexton=Recipient |
| 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  | farmer |  | a large empty chest |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in chest=Location |
| 6 | **stand** | past | a large empty chest |  |  | the room |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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