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title: The great heavy wagon all at once stopped on a little square planted… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The great heavy wagon all at once stopped on a little square planted with trees. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 27

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The great heavy wagon all at once stopped on a little square planted with trees.

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**What happens:** stop, plant · **To what, where:** great heavy wagon, little square

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:25:27
# text = The great heavy wagon all at once stopped on a little square planted with trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | participle |  | the great heavy wagon *not said here* |  | a little square |  | all, once *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **plant** | participle |  | a little square *not said here* |  |  |  | with trees | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tree=Instrument |

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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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