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title: The old peasant rode into the town upon this horse, and his neighbor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old peasant rode into the town upon this horse, and his neighbors often borrowed it of him, and paid for the loan of it by rendering some service to the old couple. Who acts: old peasant, neighbors. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does I
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 11

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The old peasant rode into the town upon this horse, and his neighbors often borrowed it of him, and paid for the loan of it by rendering some service to the old couple.

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**Who acts:** old peasant, neighbors · **What happens:** ride, borrow, pay, render, loan · **To what, where:** town, article, service, old couple

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old peasant, neighbors), 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:pg27200:132:11
# text = The old peasant rode into the town upon this horse, and his neighbors often borrowed it of him, and paid for the loan of it by rendering some service to the old couple.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	rendering	render	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	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 | **ride** | past | the old peasant |  |  | the town |  | upon this horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory |
| 2 | **borrow** | past | horse's neighbors | article |  |  |  | of horse; often *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | past | the old peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the loan of article | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for loan=Theme |
| 4 | **render** | gerund | the old peasant *not said here* | some service | the old couple |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Theme to couple=Recipient |
| 5 | **loan** |  |  | article |  |  |  |  | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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