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title: He had carried his master through fire and smoke in the battle-field… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had carried his master through fire and smoke in the battle-field, with the bullets whistling round him; he had kicked and bitten, and taken part in the fight, when the enemy advanced; and, with his master on his back, he had dashed over the fallen foe, and saved the golden crown and the Emperor'
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 4

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He had carried his master through fire and smoke in the battle-field, with the bullets whistling round him; he had kicked and bitten, and taken part in the fight, when the enemy advanced; and, with his master on his back, he had dashed over the fallen foe, and saved the golden crown and the Emperor's life, which was of more value than the brightest gold.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, bullets, golden crown · **What happens:** carry, whistle, kick, bite, take, dash · **To what, where:** master, fire, part, fight, fallen foe, golden crown

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, bullets, golden crown), 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:pg27200:8:4
# text = He had carried his master through fire and smoke in the battle-field, with the bullets whistling round him; he had kicked and bitten, and taken part in the fight, when the enemy advanced; and, with his master on his back, he had dashed over the fallen foe, and saved the golden crown and the Emperor's life, which was of more value than the brightest gold.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bullets	bullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
19	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	kicked	kick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	advanced	advanced	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	parataxis	_	_
53	over	over	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	's	's	PART	POS	_	65	case	_	_
67	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
69	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	73	nsubj	_	_
70	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	73	cop	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	73	amod	_	_
73	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	appos	_	_
74	than	than	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
76	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	77	amod	_	_
77	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · perfect | Emperor | Emperor's master |  | fire and smoke |  | in the battle field | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent master=Value in field=Location |
| 2 | **whistle** | gerund | the bullets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Emperor | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kick** | past · perfect | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bite** | participle | Emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | participle | Emperor *not said here* | part |  | the fight and the enemy advanced |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in fight=Location |
| 6 | **dash** | past · perfect | Emperor |  |  | the fallen foe |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over foe=Trajectory |
| 7 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **save** | past | Emperor *not said here* | the golden crown and the Emperor's life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | the golden crown and the Emperor's life |  |  |  |  | of more value; than the brightest gold | tree rules |

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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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