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title: Over the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube, cities which… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube, cities which we in our time know not, the travellers pass; but here and there, on the rich sites of those that time shall bring forth, the caravan sometimes descends, and departs thence again. Who acts: we, travellers, time, caravan. A sentence 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 25

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Over the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube, cities which we in our time know not, the travellers pass; but here and there, on the rich sites of those that time shall bring forth, the caravan sometimes descends, and departs thence again.

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**Who acts:** we, travellers, time, caravan · **What happens:** not know, pass, bring, descend, depart · **To what, where:** cities, remains, rich sites

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, travellers, time, caravan), 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:pg27200:191:25
# text = Over the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube, cities which we in our time know not, the travellers pass; but here and there, on the rich sites of those that time shall bring forth, the caravan sometimes descends, and departs thence again.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	nmod	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
40	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	45	advmod	_	_
45	descends	descend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	departs	depart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
49	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present | we | cities |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pass** | present | the travellers |  |  | the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube; here |  | on the rich sites of those | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over remains=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | shall | that time | the rich sites of those *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent site=Theme |
| 4 | **descend** | present | the caravan |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **depart** | present | the caravan *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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