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title: "What are you running away with there?" asked two of the police whom… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "What are you running away with there?" asked two of the police whom he met, and at whom the dog barked. " Who acts: you, boy, dog. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 136

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"What are you running away with there?" asked two of the police whom he met, and at whom the dog barked. "

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**Who acts:** you, boy, dog · **What happens:** run away, ask, meet, bark · **To what, where:** two, police · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy, dog), 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:pg27200:89:136
# text = "What are you running away with there?" asked two of the police whom he met, and at whom the dog barked. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	barked	bark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product with there=Material |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  | two of the police |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent two=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **meet** | past | boy | the police |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **bark** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at whom=Stimulus |

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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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