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title: His fellow-traveller stood by with folded hands, gazing on the dark… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His fellow-traveller stood by with folded hands, gazing on the dark wood and the towns bathed in the warm sunshine. Who acts: fellow traveller. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 14

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His fellow-traveller stood by with folded hands, gazing on the dark wood and the towns bathed in the warm sunshine.

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**Who acts:** fellow traveller · **What happens:** stand, fold, gaze, bath · **To what, where:** towns, warm sunshine

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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 (fellow traveller), 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:pg27200:197:14
# text = His fellow-traveller stood by with folded hands, gazing on the dark wood and the towns bathed in the warm sunshine.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	bathed	bath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | sun's fellow traveller |  |  |  |  | by folded hands | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hand=Location |
| 2 | **fold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **gaze** | gerund | sun's fellow traveller *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the dark wood and the towns | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wood=Theme |
| 4 | **bath** | participle |  | the towns *not said here* |  | the warm sunshine |  |  | tree rules |

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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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