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title: Then they returned to a nest, and there the quarrelling began afresh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they returned to a nest, and there the quarrelling began afresh; for in hot countries people are almost all violent and passionate. Who acts: gentlemen, quarrelling, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 60

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Then they returned to a nest, and there the quarrelling began afresh; for in hot countries people are almost all violent and passionate.

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**Who acts:** gentlemen, quarrelling, people · **What happens:** return, begin, be, passionate

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen, quarrelling, people), 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:pg27200:84:60
# text = Then they returned to a nest, and there the quarrelling began afresh; for in hot countries people are almost all violent and passionate.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	passionate	passionate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | gentlemen *= gentleman* |  |  |  | then | to a nest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to nest=Result |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the quarrelling |  |  | there |  | afresh *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | for hot countries; almost, violent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **passionate** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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