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title: He waited quietly for several hours, and then, after looking careful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He waited quietly for several hours, and then, after looking carefully around him, hastened away from the moor as fast as he could. Who acts: tongue. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 84

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He waited quietly for several hours, and then, after looking carefully around him, hastened away from the moor as fast as he could.

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**Who acts:** tongue · **What happens:** wait, look, hasten away · **To what, where:** moor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue), 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:pg27200:201:84
# text = He waited quietly for several hours, and then, after looking carefully around him, hastened away from the moor as fast as he could.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | tongue |  |  |  | hour | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | around tongue; carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme |
| 3 | **hasten away** | participle | tongue *not said here* |  |  | the moor | then | away, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from moor=Trajectory |

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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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