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title: Then a stately carriage came rolling along that way, and in it sat a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a stately carriage came rolling along that way, and in it sat a grand lady driving the spirited, light-footed horses. Who acts: stately carriage, grand lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 51

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Then a stately carriage came rolling along that way, and in it sat a grand lady driving the spirited, light-footed horses.

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**Who acts:** stately carriage, grand lady · **What happens:** come, roll, sit, drive · **To what, where:** way, grand lady, carriage, spirited footed horses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stately carriage, grand lady), 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:pg27200:24:51
# text = Then a stately carriage came rolling along that way, and in it sat a grand lady driving the spirited, light-footed horses.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
20	spirited	spirited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 stately carriage |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund | a stately carriage *not said here* |  |  | that way |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sit** | past | a stately carriage *not said here* | a grand lady |  | carriage |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in it=Location |
| 4 | **drive** | gerund | a grand lady *not said here* | the spirited footed horses |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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