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title: The other woman lifted up hers to defend herself, and the two pots c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The other woman lifted up hers to defend herself, and the two pots clashed together so violently that they were dashed to pieces, and fire and ashes flew about the room. Who acts: other woman, two pots, fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 78

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The other woman lifted up hers to defend herself, and the two pots clashed together so violently that they were dashed to pieces, and fire and ashes flew about the room.

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**Who acts:** other woman, two pots, fire · **What happens:** lift up, defend, clash, dash, fly · **To what, where:** Felicita, children

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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 (other woman, two pots, fire), 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:pg27200:89:78
# text = The other woman lifted up hers to defend herself, and the two pots clashed together so violently that they were dashed to pieces, and fire and ashes flew about the room.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	clashed	clash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | the other woman | Felicita |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme |
| 2 | **defend** | to-infinitive | the other woman *not said here* | Felicita |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **clash** | past | the two pots |  |  |  |  | together, violently *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dash** | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |
| 5 | **fly** | past | fire and ashes |  |  |  |  | about the room | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=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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