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title: The cattle walked on the path and by the palings, and at the turnpik… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The cattle walked on the path and by the palings, and at the turnpike-gate they even walked into the toll-keeper's potato-field, where one fowl was strutting about with a string tied to its leg, for fear it should take fright at the crowd, and run away and get lost. Who acts: cattle, one fowl, it. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 50

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The cattle walked on the path and by the palings, and at the turnpike-gate they even walked into the toll-keeper's potato-field, where one fowl was strutting about with a string tied to its leg, for fear it should take fright at the crowd, and run away and get lost.

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**Who acts:** cattle, one fowl, it · **What happens:** walk, strut, tie, take, run away, get · **To what, where:** path, turnpike gate, string, fright, crowd

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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 (cattle, one fowl, it), 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:pg27200:132:50
# text = The cattle walked on the path and by the palings, and at the turnpike-gate they even walked into the toll-keeper's potato-field, where one fowl was strutting about with a string tied to its leg, for fear it should take fright at the crowd, and run away and get lost.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palings	paling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	turnpike	turnpike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	toll	toll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	strutting	strut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
36	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
50	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	49	parataxis	_	_
57	away	away	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	56	conj	_	_
60	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the cattle |  |  | the path and the palings |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Trajectory |
| 2 | **walk** | past | cattle |  |  | the turnpike gate |  | into the toll keeper's potato field *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result |
| 3 | **strut** | past · progressive | one fowl |  |  |  |  | with a string; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tie** | participle |  | a string *not said here* |  |  |  | to fowl's leg | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leg=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **take** | should | it | fright |  | the crowd |  | for fear | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fright=Theme for fear=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **run away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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