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title: We both cried; but in the afternoon we went up the Round Tower, and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We both cried; but in the afternoon we went up the Round Tower, and looked down on Copenhagen, and far, far away over the water; then we went to Friedericksberg, where the King and the Queen were sailing about in their splendid barges.' Who acts: We, King. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 52

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We both cried; but in the afternoon we went up the Round Tower, and looked down on Copenhagen, and far, far away over the water; then we went to Friedericksberg, where the King and the Queen were sailing about in their splendid barges.'

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**Who acts:** We, King · **What happens:** cry, go up, look down, go, sail · **To what, where:** Round Tower, Friedericksberg, splendid barges

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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: who acts (We, King), 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:pg1597:17:52
# text = We both cried; but in the afternoon we went up the Round Tower, and looked down on Copenhagen, and far, far away over the water; then we went to Friedericksberg, where the King and the Queen were sailing about in their splendid barges.'
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	both	both	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Friedericksberg	Friedericksberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	parataxis	_	_
45	about	about	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	barges	barge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | We |  |  |  |  | away, both *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go up** | past | we | the Round Tower |  |  | afternoon |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **look down** | past | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Copenhagen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on copenhagen=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | we |  |  | Friedericksberg | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to friedericksberg=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **sail** | past · progressive | the King and the Queen |  |  | King's splendid barges |  | about *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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