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title: It went faster and faster right through the next street, and then th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It went faster and faster right through the next street, and then the person who drove turned round and nodded pleasantly to Kay, just as if they were acquainted with each other, but whenever Kay wished to loosen his little sledge the driver nodded again, so Kay sat still, and they drove out through
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 67

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It went faster and faster right through the next street, and then the person who drove turned round and nodded pleasantly to Kay, just as if they were acquainted with each other, but whenever Kay wished to loosen his little sledge the driver nodded again, so Kay sat still, and they drove out through the town gate.

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**Who acts:** sledge, Kay, driver · **What happens:** go, turn round, nod, acquaint, wish, loosen · **To what, where:** person, next street, Kay, little sledge, town gate

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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, driver), 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:pg27200:171:67
# text = It went faster and faster right through the next street, and then the person who drove turned round and nodded pleasantly to Kay, just as if they were acquainted with each other, but whenever Kay wished to loosen his little sledge the driver nodded again, so Kay sat still, and they drove out through the town gate.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
6	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	round	round	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	31	obl	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	loosen	loosen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	again	again	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
53	still	still	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
58	out	out	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	through	through	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sledge | the person |  | the next street |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **turn round** | past · passive |  | the person |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **nod** | past |  |  | Kay |  |  | pleasantly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kay=Recipient |
| 4 | **acquaint** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Kay |  |  |  | with each | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **wish** | past | Kay |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **loosen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kay *not said here* | fault's little sledge |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient |
| 7 | **nod** | past | the driver | fault's little sledge *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient |
| 8 | **sit** | past | Kay |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **drive out** | past | Kay |  |  | the town gate |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through gate=Trajectory |

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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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