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title: Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all. Who acts: Raven, this. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 130

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Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all.

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**Who acts:** Raven, this · **What happens:** pass, bade, be · **To what, where:** first miles, farewell, painful separation

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raven, this), 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:pg1597:13:130
# text = Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past |  | the first miles |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bade** | past | the Raven | Gerda's farewell |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the painful separation |  |  |  | of all | 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:** «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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