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title: Did he drive away to meet death, or hasten to the embraces of his be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Did he drive away to meet death, or hasten to the embraces of his beloved? Who acts: door. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 12

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Did he drive away to meet death, or hasten to the embraces of his beloved?

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**Who acts:** door · **What happens:** drive away, meet, hasten, belov · **To what, where:** death, embraces

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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:pg27200:122:12
# text = Did he drive away to meet death, or hasten to the embraces of his beloved?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive away** | past · do-support | door |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | door *not said here* | death |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **hasten** | infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  | the embraces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to embrace=Destination |
| 4 | **belov** | participle |  | the embraces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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