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title: The sexton crept out, pushed the empty chest into the water, and wen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sexton crept out, pushed the empty chest into the water, and went to his house, then he measured out a whole bushel full of gold for Little Claus, who had already received one from the farmer, so that now he had a barrow full. Who acts: sexton, Claus, whole bushel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 94

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The sexton crept out, pushed the empty chest into the water, and went to his house, then he measured out a whole bushel full of gold for Little Claus, who had already received one from the farmer, so that now he had a barrow full.

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**Who acts:** sexton, Claus, whole bushel · **What happens:** creep out, push, go, measure out, receive, have · **To what, where:** empty chest, water, house, whole bushel, one, barrow

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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 (sexton, Claus, whole bushel), 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:pg27200:71:94
# text = The sexton crept out, pushed the empty chest into the water, and went to his house, then he measured out a whole bushel full of gold for Little Claus, who had already received one from the farmer, so that now he had a barrow full.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	_
32	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	already	already	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	47	mark	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	barrow	barrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep out** | past | the sexton |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | past | the sexton *not said here* | the empty chest |  | the water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme into water=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | the sexton *not said here* |  |  | water's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **measure out** | past | Claus | a whole bushel |  |  | then | for Little | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme bushel=Value |
| 5 | **receive** | past · perfect | a whole bushel | one |  |  |  | from the farmer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from farmer=Source |
| 6 | **have** | past | Claus | a barrow |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrow=Patient |

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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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