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title: I saw him hastening away with your little child; he strides faster t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I saw him hastening away with your little child; he strides faster than the wind, and never brings back what he has taken away." Who acts: I, weight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 15

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I saw him hastening away with your little child; he strides faster than the wind, and never brings back what he has taken away."

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**Who acts:** I, weight · **What happens:** see, hasten away, stride, not bring back, take away · **To what, where:** weight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, weight), 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:pg27200:185:15
# text = I saw him hastening away with your little child; he strides faster than the wind, and never brings back what he has taken away."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	strides	stride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | weight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hasten away** | gerund | weight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your little child; away *property* | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with child=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stride** | present | weight |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **bring back** | present | weight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take away** | present · perfect | weight |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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