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title: And all that the little maiden, who sat behind on the stick, spoke o… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all that the little maiden, who sat behind on the stick, spoke of, flew by in reality. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 106

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And all that the little maiden, who sat behind on the stick, spoke of, flew by in reality.

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**What happens:** sit, speak, fly · **To what, where:** stick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:17:106
# text = And all that the little maiden, who sat behind on the stick, spoke of, flew by in reality.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | the stick |  | behind *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by reality | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by reality=Location |

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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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