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title: The place inspired her, and she reminded me of a wild Arab horse, th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The place inspired her, and she reminded me of a wild Arab horse, that rushes headlong on with snorting nostrils and flying mane--her song was so light and yet so firm. Who acts: place, wild Arab horse, snorting. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Even
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 15

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The place inspired her, and she reminded me of a wild Arab horse, that rushes headlong on with snorting nostrils and flying mane--her song was so light and yet so firm.

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**Who acts:** place, wild Arab horse, snorting · **What happens:** inspire, remind, rush, snort, fly, be · **To what, where:** audience, me, nostrils, mane

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, wild Arab horse, snorting), 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:pg27200:102:15
# text = The place inspired her, and she reminded me of a wild Arab horse, that rushes headlong on with snorting nostrils and flying mane--her song was so light and yet so firm.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reminded	remind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
21	snorting	snort	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
22	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
25	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inspire** | past | the place | audience |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 2 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | place |  | me |  |  | of a wild Arab horse | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of horse=Topic |
| 3 | **rush** | present | a wild Arab horse |  |  |  |  | headlong *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **snort** | gerund |  | nostrils |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nostril=Patient |
| 5 | **fly** | gerund |  | mane and place's song |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mane=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | snorting |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | snorting *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sing** |  | place |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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