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title: The carriage stopped at the top of the lane, and the company proceed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The carriage stopped at the top of the lane, and the company proceeded on foot towards the house, to inspect the young sculptor's work, for they had heard him spoken of by chance. Who acts: carriage, company, sculptors, young sculptor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 45

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The carriage stopped at the top of the lane, and the company proceeded on foot towards the house, to inspect the young sculptor's work, for they had heard him spoken of by chance.

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**Who acts:** carriage, company, sculptors, young sculptor · **What happens:** stop, proceed, inspect, hear, speak, work · **To what, where:** top, foot, work, company · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage, company, sculptors, young sculptor), 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:pg27200:151:45
# text = The carriage stopped at the top of the lane, and the company proceeded on foot towards the house, to inspect the young sculptor's work, for they had heard him spoken of by chance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	inspect	inspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	parataxis	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the carriage |  |  | the top of the lane |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |
| 2 | **proceed** | past | the company |  |  | foot |  | towards the house | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **inspect** | to-infinitive | the company *not said here* | the young sculptor's work |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | sculptors *= sculptor* | company |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | company *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by chance | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **work** |  | the young sculptor |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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