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title: There were people walking, carriages driving, and mules trotting alo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were people walking, carriages driving, and mules trotting along, with their bells on the harness, "tingle, tingle," as they went. Who acts: people, mules. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 12

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There were people walking, carriages driving, and mules trotting along, with their bells on the harness, "tingle, tingle," as they went.

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**Who acts:** people, mules · **What happens:** be, walk, drive, trot, go · **To what, where:** carriages

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, mules), 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:pg27200:165:12
# text = There were people walking, carriages driving, and mules trotting along, with their bells on the harness, "tingle, tingle," as they went.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tingle	tingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	tingle	tingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | people *not said here* | carriages |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **trot** | gerund | mules |  |  |  |  | with people's bells on the harness and tingle and tingle; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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