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title: We saw her ride, as child, over the bridge, looking proudly around h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We saw her ride, as child, over the bridge, looking proudly around her, as if the whole world belonged to her, and all the birds' nests in it; and we saw her on the heath, by the sand-dunes; and, last of all, in the ferry-house. Who acts: We, whole world, family. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 251

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We saw her ride, as child, over the bridge, looking proudly around her, as if the whole world belonged to her, and all the birds' nests in it; and we saw her on the heath, by the sand-dunes; and, last of all, in the ferry-house.

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**Who acts:** We, whole world, family · **What happens:** see, look, belong, ride · **To what, where:** ride, bridge, nests, family, heath

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, whole world, family), 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:pg27200:149:251
# text = We saw her ride, as child, over the bridge, looking proudly around her, as if the whole world belonged to her, and all the birds' nests in it; and we saw her on the heath, by the sand-dunes; and, last of all, in the ferry-house.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	last	last	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
58	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | We | family's ride and child |  | the bridge |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around family; proudly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the whole world | all birds's nests | family | bridge |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | we | family |  | the heath |  | by the sand dunes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **ride** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=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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