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title: “At a hundred human paces from here there sits a little snail in her… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “At a hundred human paces from here there sits a little snail in her house, on a gooseberry bush; she is quite lonely, and old enough to be married. Who acts: hundred human paces, wife. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 47

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“At a hundred human paces from here there sits a little snail in her house, on a gooseberry bush; she is quite lonely, and old enough to be married.

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**Who acts:** hundred human paces, wife · **What happens:** sit, be, marry · **To what, where:** little snail, house

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred human paces, wife), 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:pg1597:20:47
# text = “At a hundred human paces from here there sits a little snail in her house, on a gooseberry bush; she is quite lonely, and old enough to be married.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
10	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	gooseberry	gooseberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | hundred human paces | a little snail |  | wife's house |  | on a gooseberry bush | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent snail=Theme on bush=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wife |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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