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title: The old pair shall again wander through the streets arm-in-arm, or s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old pair shall again wander through the streets arm-in-arm, or sit with their fresh, healthy cheeks on the bench under the lime-tree, and smile and nod at rich and poor. Who acts: old pair. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 47

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The old pair shall again wander through the streets arm-in-arm, or sit with their fresh, healthy cheeks on the bench under the lime-tree, and smile and nod at rich and poor.

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**Who acts:** old pair · **What happens:** wander, sit, smile, nod · **To what, where:** arm, rich

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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 (old pair), 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:pg27200:130:47
# text = The old pair shall again wander through the streets arm-in-arm, or sit with their fresh, healthy cheeks on the bench under the lime-tree, and smile and nod at rich and poor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	smile	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	nod	nod	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **wander** | shall | the old pair |  |  | arm | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through arm=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | the old pair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with generations's fresh healthy cheeks on the bench under the lime tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smile** | infinitive | the old pair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **nod** | infinitive | the old pair *not said here* |  |  | rich |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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