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title: Both the reindeer ran by their side, and followed them as far as the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Both the reindeer ran by their side, and followed them as far as the boundaries of the country, where the first green leaves were budding. Who acts: reindeer, first green leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 37

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Both the reindeer ran by their side, and followed them as far as the boundaries of the country, where the first green leaves were budding.

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**Who acts:** reindeer, first green leaves · **What happens:** run, follow, bud · **To what, where:** words

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer, first green leaves), 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:pg27200:176:37
# text = Both the reindeer ran by their side, and followed them as far as the boundaries of the country, where the first green leaves were budding.
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc:preconj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	budding	bud	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the reindeer |  |  |  |  | by words's side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the reindeer *not said here* | words *= word* |  |  |  | far *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **bud** | past · progressive | the first green leaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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