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title: The old sober maiden, who had for years and years moved quietly roun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old sober maiden, who had for years and years moved quietly round and round in a dull circle, was now, in death, rattled over stock and stone on the public highway. Who acts: years, old sober maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 20

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The old sober maiden, who had for years and years moved quietly round and round in a dull circle, was now, in death, rattled over stock and stone on the public highway.

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**Who acts:** years, old sober maiden · **What happens:** have, move, be, rattle · **To what, where:** dull circle, death, stock

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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 (years, old sober maiden), 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:pg27200:101:20
# text = The old sober maiden, who had for years and years moved quietly round and round in a dull circle, was now, in death, rattled over stock and stone on the public highway.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sober	sober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | past | years |  |  | a dull circle |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | the old sober maiden |  |  | death | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rattle** | participle |  | death *not said here* |  | stock and stone |  | on the public highway | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stock=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:** «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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