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title: "The eldest and youngest, hand-in-hand, Went forth alone to a distan… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The eldest and youngest, hand-in-hand, Went forth alone to a distant land." Who acts: hand hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 159

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"The eldest and youngest, hand-in-hand, Went forth alone to a distant land."

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**Who acts:** hand hand · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** distant land

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand hand), 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:pg27200:212:159
# text = "The eldest and youngest, hand-in-hand, Went forth alone to a distant land."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | hand hand |  |  | a distant land |  | alone, forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |

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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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