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title: She had watched an opportunity to get into a goods train, and had tr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had watched an opportunity to get into a goods train, and had travelled by the railway; and yet she had arrived almost too late. Who acts: rest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 73

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She had watched an opportunity to get into a goods train, and had travelled by the railway; and yet she had arrived almost too late.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** watch, get, travell, arrive · **To what, where:** opportunity, goods train

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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:pg27200:180:73
# text = She had watched an opportunity to get into a goods train, and had travelled by the railway; and yet she had arrived almost too late.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	compound	_	_
11	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
25	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	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 | **watch** | past · perfect | rest | a opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* | a opportunity *not said here* |  | a goods train |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into train=Destination |
| 3 | **travell** | past · perfect | rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the railway | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** | past · perfect | rest |  |  |  | yet | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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