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title: She took a few steps, such as a crawling animal may take, and soon f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She took a few steps, such as a crawling animal may take, and soon found herself on a road beside which people dwelt; but there were flower gardens as well as kitchen gardens. Who acts: sun, crawling animal, people, flower gardens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 76

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She took a few steps, such as a crawling animal may take, and soon found herself on a road beside which people dwelt; but there were flower gardens as well as kitchen gardens.

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**Who acts:** sun, crawling animal, people, flower gardens · **What happens:** take, find, dwell, be · **To what, where:** few steps, animal, road

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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 (sun, crawling animal, people, flower gardens), 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:pg27200:194:76
# text = She took a few steps, such as a crawling animal may take, and soon found herself on a road beside which people dwelt; but there were flower gardens as well as kitchen gardens.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	crawling	crawling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	36	cc	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
35	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | sun | a few steps |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | may | a crawling animal | a few steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | sun *not said here* | animal |  | a road |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | people |  |  | a road |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside which=Location |
| 5 | **be** | past | flower gardens |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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