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title: The paved street now passes over the resting place of Old Preben and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The paved street now passes over the resting place of Old Preben and his wife; no one thinks of them any more now." Who acts: paved street, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 37

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The paved street now passes over the resting place of Old Preben and his wife; no one thinks of them any more now."

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**Who acts:** paved street, one · **What happens:** pave, pass, think · **To what, where:** resting place

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paved street, one), 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:pg27200:130:37
# text = The paved street now passes over the resting place of Old Preben and his wife; no one thinks of them any more now."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Preben	Preben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	any	any	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | present | the paved street |  |  | the resting place of Old Preben and street's wife | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over place=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | no one |  |  |  | now | of others *= other* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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