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title: You said a great deal about them, and I read all while the rain was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You said a great deal about them, and I read all while the rain was pouring down and I was standing there with the dust-bin. Who acts: You, I, rain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 44

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You said a great deal about them, and I read all while the rain was pouring down and I was standing there with the dust-bin.

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**Who acts:** You, I, rain · **What happens:** say, read, pour down, stand · **To what, where:** great deal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, rain), 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:pg27200:72:44
# text = You said a great deal about them, and I read all while the rain was pouring down and I was standing there with the dust-bin.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | You | a great deal |  |  |  | about countries *= country* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic |
| 2 | **read** | past | I |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pour down** | past · progressive | the rain |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **stand** | past · progressive | I |  |  | there |  | with the dust bin | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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