--- title: The two friends walked on, and thus she escaped the fate of being bo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The two friends walked on, and thus she escaped the fate of being bottled up in spirits. Who acts: two friends, Aesop. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/135/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Toad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/) / 135 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 135 The two friends walked on, and thus she escaped the fate of being bottled up in spirits. **Who acts:** two friends, Aesop · **What happens:** walk on, escape, bottle up · **To what, where:** fate, spirits This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two friends, Aesop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:194:135 # text = The two friends walked on, and thus she escaped the fate of being bottled up in spirits. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 thus thus ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 bottled bottle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk on** | past | the two friends | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **escape** | past | Aesop | the fate | | | | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fate=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **bottle up** | gerund · passive | | the fate *not said here* | | spirits | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in spirit=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/136/) - ↑ back to [The Toad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/)