--- title: There was one stepping along, proud of his purse; another, of the ke… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There was one stepping along, proud of his purse; another, of the key he carried behind him, though he had nothing to lock up; another took a pride in his moth-eaten coat; and another, in his mortified body. " Who acts: key, aeronaut, another. 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" **Who acts:** key, aeronaut, another · **What happens:** step, be, have, lock up, take, eat · **To what, where:** nothing, pride, eaten coat This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (key, aeronaut, another), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:143:170 # text = There was one stepping along, proud of his purse; another, of the key he carried behind him, though he had nothing to lock up; another took a pride in his moth-eaten coat; and another, in his mortified body. " 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 4 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 along along ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 behind behind ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 lock lock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 31 nsubj _ _ 31 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 36 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 mortified mortify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 amod _ _ 47 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step** | gerund | | | | | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | another key | | | | | behind aeronaut; carry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | aeronaut | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 4 | **lock up** | to-infinitive | aeronaut *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **take** | past | another | a pride | | aeronaut's eaten coat | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pride=Value in coat=Location | | 6 | **eat** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mortify** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/169/) - next →: [sentence 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/171/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)