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title: I had to run round and round without getting any farther in advance,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I had to run round and round without getting any farther in advance, and only to make everybody laugh. Who acts: I, everybody. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 24

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I had to run round and round without getting any farther in advance, and only to make everybody laugh.

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**Who acts:** I, everybody · **What happens:** have, run, get, make, laugh · **To what, where:** advance, everybody

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (I, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:12468`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:181:24
# text = I had to run round and round without getting any farther in advance, and only to make everybody laugh.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	any	any	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	_
20	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | advance |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | everybody |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **laugh** | infinitive | everybody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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