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title: They had come from afar: one from mighty England, others from German… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had come from afar: one from mighty England, others from Germany and France. Who acts: leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 197

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They had come from afar: one from mighty England, others from Germany and France.

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**Who acts:** leaves · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** others, afar

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves), 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:pg27200:124:197
# text = They had come from afar: one from mighty England, others from Germany and France.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | leaves *= leaf* | others from Germany and France |  | afar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial\_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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