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title: "Up the hill, down the dale we wend, That is life, from beginning to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Up the hill, down the dale we wend, That is life, from beginning to end." Who acts: we, That. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 48

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"Up the hill, down the dale we wend, That is life, from beginning to end."

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**Who acts:** we, That · **What happens:** wend, be, begin · **To what, where:** dale, life

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, That), 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:pg27200:189:48
# text = "Up the hill, down the dale we wend, That is life, from beginning to end."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Up	up	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wend	wend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wend** *in a quote* | present | we | the dale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location dale=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | to end |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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