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title: Omnibuses, those over-crowded moving houses, came rattling by; horse… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Omnibuses, those over-crowded moving houses, came rattling by; horsemen galloped among them; even carts and wagons asserted their rights. Who acts: Omnibuses, horsemen, carts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 45

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Omnibuses, those over-crowded moving houses, came rattling by; horsemen galloped among them; even carts and wagons asserted their rights.

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**Who acts:** Omnibuses, horsemen, carts · **What happens:** move, come, rattle, gallop, assert · **To what, where:** rights

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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: who acts (Omnibuses, horsemen, carts), 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:pg27200:25:45
# text = Omnibuses, those over-crowded moving houses, came rattling by; horsemen galloped among them; even carts and wagons asserted their rights.
1	Omnibuses	omnibus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
4	over-crowded	over-crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rattling	rattle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	asserted	assert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Omnibuses and that over-crowded moving houses |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rattle** | gerund | Omnibuses and that over-crowded moving houses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gallop** | past | horsemen |  |  |  |  | among Omnibuses *= omnibus* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **assert** | past | carts and wagons | Omnibuses's rights |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme right=Reflexive |

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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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