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title: The roads crossed each other in the depths of the forest, and she no… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The roads crossed each other in the depths of the forest, and she no longer knew whither she should go! then there stood a thorn-bush; there was neither leaf nor flower on it, it was also in the cold winter season, and ice-flakes hung on the branches. Who acts: roads, mother, leaf, forest. A sentenc
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 23

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The roads crossed each other in the depths of the forest, and she no longer knew whither she should go! then there stood a thorn-bush; there was neither leaf nor flower on it, it was also in the cold winter season, and ice-flakes hung on the branches.

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**Who acts:** roads, mother, leaf, forest · **What happens:** cross, know, go, stand, be, hang · **To what, where:** each, thorn bush, ice flakes, branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roads, mother, leaf, forest), 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:pg1597:21:23
# text = The roads crossed each other in the depths of the forest, and she no longer knew whither she should go! then there stood a thorn-bush; there was neither leaf nor flower on it, it was also in the cold winter season, and ice-flakes hung on the branches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obj	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc:preconj	_	_
34	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
36	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
42	also	also	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
53	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | the roads | each |  |  |  | in the depths of the forest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent each=Patient in depth=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | should | mother |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | mother *not said here* | a thorn bush |  | there | then |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | past | leaf nor flower on forest |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | forest |  |  |  | in the cold winter season | ice flakes *nmod* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hang** | participle |  | ice flakes *not said here* |  | the branches |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=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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