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title: Down into the old part of the garden, where the great avenue of wild… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Down into the old part of the garden, where the great avenue of wild chestnut trees lures the wanderer to tread its shades, went the man who was in search of the Story; for here the wind had once murmured something to him of "Waldemar Daa and his Daughters." Who acts: great avenue, man, avenue. A se
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 46

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Down into the old part of the garden, where the great avenue of wild chestnut trees lures the wanderer to tread its shades, went the man who was in search of the Story; for here the wind had once murmured something to him of "Waldemar Daa and his Daughters."

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**Who acts:** great avenue, man, avenue · **What happens:** lure, tread, go, be, murmur, shade · **To what, where:** wanderer, shades, man, search, wind

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great avenue, man, avenue), 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:pg27200:211:46
# text = Down into the old part of the garden, where the great avenue of wild chestnut trees lures the wanderer to tread its shades, went the man who was in search of the Story; for here the wind had once murmured something to him of "Waldemar Daa and his Daughters."
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	avenue	avenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	lures	lure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	43	advmod	_	_
43	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
44	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
50	Daa	Daa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	flat	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	Daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lure** | present | the great avenue of wild chestnut trees | the wanderer |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wanderer=Patient |
| 2 | **tread** | to-infinitive | the great avenue of wild chestnut trees *not said here* | avenue's shades |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location shade=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past |  | the man |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the man |  |  | search |  | of the Story | tree rules |
| 5 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **shade** |  | avenue |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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