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title: They were both silent, but he took her hand, and they walked togethe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were both silent, but he took her hand, and they walked together across the purple heath, over moor and meadow towards the sandhills. Who acts: churches, One. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 70

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They were both silent, but he took her hand, and they walked together across the purple heath, over moor and meadow towards the sandhills.

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**Who acts:** churches, One · **What happens:** be, take, walk · **To what, where:** hand, purple heath

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (churches, 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:pg27200:158:70
# text = They were both silent, but he took her hand, and they walked together across the purple heath, over moor and meadow towards the sandhills.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sandhills	sandhill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | churches *= church* |  |  |  |  | both, silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | One | grass's hand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | past | churches *= church* |  |  | the purple heath |  | over moor and meadow; towards the sandhills; together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent across heath=Initial\_Location over moor=Trajectory towards sandhill=Destination |

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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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