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title: Immediately a great dog came bounding towards her out of the ravine,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately a great dog came bounding towards her out of the ravine, and then another and another; they barked loudly, ran back, and then came again. Who acts: great dog, dogs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 77

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Immediately a great dog came bounding towards her out of the ravine, and then another and another; they barked loudly, ran back, and then came again.

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**Who acts:** great dog, dogs · **What happens:** come, bound, bark, run back · **To what, where:** ravine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (great dog, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14329`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:209:77
# text = Immediately a great dog came bounding towards her out of the ravine, and then another and another; they barked loudly, ran back, and then came again.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	orphan	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	barked	bark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a great dog |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bound** | gerund | a great dog *not said here* |  |  | the ravine |  | towards sound | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards her=Destination |
| 3 | **bark** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run back** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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