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description: And on he now sped still quicker--day and night on he went: the loaves were consumed, and the ham too; and now they were in Lapland. Who acts: reindeer, loaves. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 91

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And on he now sped still quicker--day and night on he went: the loaves were consumed, and the ham too; and now they were in Lapland.

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**Who acts:** reindeer, loaves · **What happens:** speed, go, consume, be · **To what, where:** loaves, Lapland

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer, loaves), 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:pg1597:14:91
# text = And on he now sped still quicker--day and night on he went: the loaves were consumed, and the ham too; and now they were in Lapland.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past | reindeer |  |  |  | now; day | quick *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | reindeer |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **consume** | past · passive |  | the loaves |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | past | loaves *= loaf* |  |  | Lapland | now |  | 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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