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title: A carriage stopped, a kind of open omnibus, drawn by swift horses. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A carriage stopped, a kind of open omnibus, drawn by swift horses. Who acts: carriage. 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 49

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A carriage stopped, a kind of open omnibus, drawn by swift horses.

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**Who acts:** carriage · **What happens:** stop, draw · **To what, where:** kind

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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 (carriage), 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:pg27200:26:49
# text = A carriage stopped, a kind of open omnibus, drawn by swift horses.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | a carriage | a kind of open omnibus |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality kind=Eventuality |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | a kind of open omnibus *not said here* |  |  |  | by swift horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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