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title: The foot passengers kept within the shelter of the carriages, which… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The foot passengers kept within the shelter of the carriages, which could only move slowly on in the deep snow. Who acts: foot passengers, carriages. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 5

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The foot passengers kept within the shelter of the carriages, which could only move slowly on in the deep snow.

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**Who acts:** foot passengers, carriages · **What happens:** keep, move · **To what, where:** deep snow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot passengers, carriages), 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:pg27200:214:5
# text = The foot passengers kept within the shelter of the carriages, which could only move slowly on in the deep snow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the foot passengers |  |  |  |  | within the shelter of the carriages | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | could | the carriages |  |  | the deep snow |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on snow=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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