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title: But as it was there, it formed a good shelter against wind and weath… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But as it was there, it formed a good shelter against wind and weather to several families of earwigs who dwelt in it. Who acts: piece, earwigs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 59

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But as it was there, it formed a good shelter against wind and weather to several families of earwigs who dwelt in it.

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**Who acts:** piece, earwigs · **What happens:** be, form, dwell · **To what, where:** good shelter, several families, piece

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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 (piece, earwigs), 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:pg27200:8:59
# text = But as it was there, it formed a good shelter against wind and weather to several families of earwigs who dwelt in it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	earwigs	earwig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | piece |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | past | piece | a good shelter | several families of earwigs |  |  | against wind and weather | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme to family=Recipient |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | earwigs |  |  | piece |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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