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title: There, in the market-place, some of the boldest of the boys used to… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There, in the market-place, some of the boldest of the boys used to tie their sledges to the carts as they passed by, and so they were pulled along, and got a good ride. Who acts: boys, Boy. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 89

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There, in the market-place, some of the boldest of the boys used to tie their sledges to the carts as they passed by, and so they were pulled along, and got a good ride.

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**Who acts:** boys, Boy · **What happens:** use, tie, pass by, pull, get · **To what, where:** sledges, Boy, good ride

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Boy), 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:pg1597:11:89
# text = There, in the market-place, some of the boldest of the boys used to tie their sledges to the carts as they passed by, and so they were pulled along, and got a good ride.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boldest	bold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
34	along	along	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tie** | to-infinitive | the boys *not said here* | Boy's sledges |  |  |  | to the carts | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to cart=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **pass by** | past | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull** | past · passive |  | Boy |  |  |  | along *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | past |  | a good ride |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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