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title: The sledge drove twice round the square, and Kay fastened his own li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sledge drove twice round the square, and Kay fastened his own little sledge to it, so that when it went away, he followed with it. Who acts: sledge, Kay, fault. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 66

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The sledge drove twice round the square, and Kay fastened his own little sledge to it, so that when it went away, he followed with it.

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**Who acts:** sledge, Kay, fault · **What happens:** drive, fasten, go away, follow · **To what, where:** square, own little sledge, sledge

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sledge, Kay, fault), 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:pg27200:171:66
# text = The sledge drove twice round the square, and Kay fastened his own little sledge to it, so that when it went away, he followed with it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | the sledge |  |  | the square |  | twice *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round square=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | Kay | fault's own little sledge | sledge |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **go away** | past | sledge |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | fault |  |  |  |  | with sledge | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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