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title: And he ran on day and night still faster and faster, but the loaves… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he ran on day and night still faster and faster, but the loaves and the ham were all eaten by the time they reached Lapland. Who acts: maiden, loaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 78

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And he ran on day and night still faster and faster, but the loaves and the ham were all eaten by the time they reached Lapland.

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**Who acts:** maiden, loaves · **What happens:** run, eat, reach · **To what, where:** loaves, Lapland

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, loaves), 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:pg27200:174:78
# text = And he ran on day and night still faster and faster, but the loaves and the ham were all eaten by the time they reached Lapland.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | maiden |  |  |  | day | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past · passive |  | the loaves and the ham |  |  | time | all *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | past | loaves *= loaf* | Lapland |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lapland=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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