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description: You poor little child," said the old woman, "how did you manage to come all this distance into the wide world on such a rapid rolling stream?" Who acts: You. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 32

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You poor little child," said the old woman, "how did you manage to come all this distance into the wide world on such a rapid rolling stream?"

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** say, manage, come · **To what, where:** distance, wide world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg27200:172:32
# text = You poor little child," said the old woman, "how did you manage to come all this distance into the wide world on such a rapid rolling stream?"
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	appos	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **manage** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | all distance |  | the wide world |  | on such rapid rolling stream | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |

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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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