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title: Just then a large old carriage came by, and in it sat an old lady; s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then a large old carriage came by, and in it sat an old lady; she looked at the little girl, and taking pity on her, said to the clergyman, "Look here, if you will give me the little girl, I will take care of her." Who acts: large old carriage, Karen, clergyman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Ha
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 7

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Just then a large old carriage came by, and in it sat an old lady; she looked at the little girl, and taking pity on her, said to the clergyman, "Look here, if you will give me the little girl, I will take care of her."

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**Who acts:** large old carriage, Karen, clergyman · **What happens:** come by, sit, look, take, say, give · **To what, where:** old lady, carriage, pity, clergyman, little girl, large old carriage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large old carriage, Karen, clergyman), 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:pg27200:154:7
# text = Just then a large old carriage came by, and in it sat an old lady; she looked at the little girl, and taking pity on her, said to the clergyman, "Look here, if you will give me the little girl, I will take care of her."
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
27	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	iobj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
52	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come by** | past | a large old carriage |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | a large old carriage *not said here* | a old lady |  | carriage |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in it=Location |
| 3 | **look** | past | Karen |  |  |  |  | at the little girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | a large old carriage *not said here* | pity |  |  |  | on Karen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on she=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a large old carriage *not said here* |  | the clergyman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to clergyman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | the clergyman *= clergyman* | the little girl | a large old carriage *= carriage* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient girl=Theme |
| 8 | **take** *in a quote* | future | a large old carriage *= carriage* | care |  |  |  | of Karen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial\_Location |

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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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