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title: He was led by the well-known path, over the meadow to Vosborg; once… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was led by the well-known path, over the meadow to Vosborg; once more the elders were in bloom and the lofty lime-trees gave forth sweet fragrance, and it seemed as if it were but yesterday that he had last seen the spot. Who acts: known path, elders, bloom, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 28

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He was led by the well-known path, over the meadow to Vosborg; once more the elders were in bloom and the lofty lime-trees gave forth sweet fragrance, and it seemed as if it were but yesterday that he had last seen the spot.

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**Who acts:** known path, elders, bloom, it · **What happens:** lead, know, be, give, seem, see · **To what, where:** Jurgen, meadow, bloom, sweet fragrance, fragrance

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (known path, elders, bloom, it), 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:pg27200:161:28
# text = He was led by the well-known path, over the meadow to Vosborg; once more the elders were in bloom and the lofty lime-trees gave forth sweet fragrance, and it seemed as if it were but yesterday that he had last seen the spot.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
43	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	last	last	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	ccomp	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · passive | the known path | Jurgen |  | the meadow to Vosborg |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme over meadow=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | the elders |  |  | bloom and the lofty lime trees |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | bloom and the lofty lime trees | sweet fragrance |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme |
| 5 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | fragrance |  |  |  | last *property* | tree rules |

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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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