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title: All the boys knew was, that they had seen him tie his sledge to anot… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All the boys knew was, that they had seen him tie his sledge to another large and splendid one, which drove down the street and out of the town. Who acts: boys, Kay, large one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 6

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All the boys knew was, that they had seen him tie his sledge to another large and splendid one, which drove down the street and out of the town.

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**Who acts:** boys, Kay, large one · **What happens:** know, be, see, tie, drive down · **To what, where:** Kay, sledge, large one, street · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (boys, Kay, large one), 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:pg1597:12:6
# text = All the boys knew was, that they had seen him tie his sledge to another large and splendid one, which drove down the street and out of the town.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | all boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | boys *= boy* | Kay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie** | infinitive | Kay *not said here* | Kay's sledge | another large one |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to one=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **drive down** | past | another large one | the street and the town |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory |

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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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