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title: Leading the animal, he strode on sturdily, and, after a short time,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Leading the animal, he strode on sturdily, and, after a short time, overtook a man who was driving a sheep. Who acts: animal, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 32

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Leading the animal, he strode on sturdily, and, after a short time, overtook a man who was driving a sheep.

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**Who acts:** animal, man · **What happens:** lead, stride, overtake, drive · **To what, where:** animal, man, sheep

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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 (animal, man), 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:pg27200:132:32
# text = Leading the animal, he strode on sturdily, and, after a short time, overtook a man who was driving a sheep.
1	Leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sturdily	sturdily	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund | animal *not said here* | the animal |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 2 | **stride** | past | animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sturdily=Trajectory |
| 3 | **overtake** | past | animal *not said here* | a man |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | past · progressive | a man | a sheep |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |

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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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