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title: They could see for miles round, far away to places they had never vi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They could see for miles round, far away to places they had never visited, and John saw more of the beautiful world than he had ever known before. Who acts: steeples, places, John. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 12

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They could see for miles round, far away to places they had never visited, and John saw more of the beautiful world than he had ever known before.

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**Who acts:** steeples, places, John · **What happens:** see, not visit, know · **To what, where:** steeples, more, John

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steeples, places, John), 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:pg27200:197:12
# text = They could see for miles round, far away to places they had never visited, and John saw more of the beautiful world than he had ever known before.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | steeples *= steeple* |  |  |  |  | for miles; away, round *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **visit** | past · perfect · passive | places *not said here* | steeples *= steeple* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | John | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | John |  |  | ever | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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