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title: A land-owner followed, who in the month for sowing seed attended to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A land-owner followed, who in the month for sowing seed attended to the ploughing and was fond of field sports. Who acts: land owner, month. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 74

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A land-owner followed, who in the month for sowing seed attended to the ploughing and was fond of field sports.

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**Who acts:** land owner, month · **What happens:** follow, sow, attend, be · **To what, where:** seed

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land owner, month), 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:pg27200:82:74
# text = A land-owner followed, who in the month for sowing seed attended to the ploughing and was fond of field sports.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sowing	sow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ploughing	ploughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | a land owner |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sow** | gerund | the month *not said here* | seed |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  | seed *not said here* |  |  |  | to the ploughing | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to ploughing=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the month *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of field sports; fond *property* | 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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