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title: The van rolled out through the town-gate as briskly as if it were go… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The van rolled out through the town-gate as briskly as if it were going for a pleasant excursion. Who acts: gate. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 15

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The van rolled out through the town-gate as briskly as if it were going for a pleasant excursion.

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**Who acts:** gate · **What happens:** roll out, go · **To what, where:** van, town gate

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate), 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:pg27200:101:15
# text = The van rolled out through the town-gate as briskly as if it were going for a pleasant excursion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	briskly	briskly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	excursion	excursion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll out** | participle |  | the van *not said here* |  | the town gate |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | gate |  |  |  |  | for a pleasant excursion | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for excursion=Beneficiary |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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