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title: But in the lanes and the highways, passengers on foot or in carriage… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the lanes and the highways, passengers on foot or in carriages were hurrying to find a place of shelter. Who acts: passengers. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 98

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But in the lanes and the highways, passengers on foot or in carriages were hurrying to find a place of shelter.

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**Who acts:** passengers · **What happens:** hurry, find · **To what, where:** lanes, place

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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 (passengers), 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:pg27200:214:98
# text = But in the lanes and the highways, passengers on foot or in carriages were hurrying to find a place of shelter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | past · progressive | passengers on foot or carriages |  |  | the lanes and the highways |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lane=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | passengers on foot or carriages *not said here* | a place of shelter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |

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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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