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title: This came from the heavy wagons rolling over the entrance bridges. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This came from the heavy wagons rolling over the entrance bridges. Who acts: This, heavy wagons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 22

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This came from the heavy wagons rolling over the entrance bridges.

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**Who acts:** This, heavy wagons · **What happens:** come, roll · **To what, where:** heavy wagons, entrance bridges

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, heavy wagons), 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:pg27200:26:22
# text = This came from the heavy wagons rolling over the entrance bridges.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | This |  |  | the heavy wagons |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wagon=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund | the heavy wagons *not said here* |  |  | the entrance bridges |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=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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