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title: She has never heard the rolling of wheels or the hoof-tread of horse… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She has never heard the rolling of wheels or the hoof-tread of horses in her streets, through which the fish swim, while the black gondola glides spectrally over the green water. Who acts: Moon, fish, black gondola, wheels. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Se
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 7

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She has never heard the rolling of wheels or the hoof-tread of horses in her streets, through which the fish swim, while the black gondola glides spectrally over the green water.

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**Who acts:** Moon, fish, black gondola, wheels, horses · **What happens:** not hear, swim, glide, roll, tread · **To what, where:** rolling, streets, green water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, fish, black gondola, wheels), 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:pg27200:108:7
# text = She has never heard the rolling of wheels or the hoof-tread of horses in her streets, through which the fish swim, while the black gondola glides spectrally over the green water.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gondola	gondola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	glides	glide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
31	spectrally	spectrally	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | present · perfect | Moon | the rolling of wheels or the hoof tread of horses |  | Moon's streets |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rolling=Stimulus |
| 2 | **swim** | present | the fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **glide** | present | the black gondola |  |  | the green water |  | spectrally *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory |
| 4 | **roll** |  | wheels |  |  |  |  |  | nom rolling «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **tread** |  | horses |  |  |  |  |  | nom tread «act intransitive»: of=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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