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description: Reflecting on the matter, and without looking right or left, the Councillor went through East Street and across the Habro-Platz. Who acts: Councillor. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 55

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Reflecting on the matter, and without looking right or left, the Councillor went through East Street and across the Habro-Platz.

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**Who acts:** Councillor · **What happens:** reflect, look, leave, go · **To what, where:** East Street

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Councillor), 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:pg1597:5:55
# text = Reflecting on the matter, and without looking right or left, the Councillor went through East Street and across the Habro-Platz.
1	Reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Habro	Habro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Platz	Platz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | gerund | the Councillor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on matter=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the Councillor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | the Councillor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | the Councillor |  |  | East Street and the Habro Platz |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial\_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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