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title: And over the street pavement, the paving stones, those fragments of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And over the street pavement, the paving stones, those fragments of the oldest remains of antiquity, one walks without ever thinking about them. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 4

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And over the street pavement, the paving stones, those fragments of the oldest remains of antiquity, one walks without ever thinking about them.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** walk, think

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:136:4
# text = And over the street pavement, the paving stones, those fragments of the oldest remains of antiquity, one walks without ever thinking about them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	paving	paving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
21	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | about books *= book* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic |

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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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