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title: That's the fault of those horrible trees,' replied his neighbour; 't… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That's the fault of those horrible trees,' replied his neighbour; 'there is no free current of air; the wind can only come from the sea'--and they were gone. Who acts: That, fault, wind, trees. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 12

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That's the fault of those horrible trees,' replied his neighbour; 'there is no free current of air; the wind can only come from the sea'--and they were gone.

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**Who acts:** That, fault, wind, trees · **What happens:** be, reply, come · **To what, where:** fault, neighbour, free current, sea

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, fault, wind, trees), 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:pg27200:98:12
# text = That's the fault of those horrible trees,' replied his neighbour; 'there is no free current of air; the wind can only come from the sea'--and they were gone.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | the fault |  |  |  | of that horrible trees | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | blackthorn's neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neighbour=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the fault | no free current |  |  |  | of air | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | can | the wind |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | gone *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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