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title: The company mounted and drove away along the Boulevard de Sebastopol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The company mounted and drove away along the Boulevard de Sebastopol, that is to say, the underground boulevard, over which the well-known crowded street of that name extended. Who acts: company, that, known crowded street. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 50

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The company mounted and drove away along the Boulevard de Sebastopol, that is to say, the underground boulevard, over which the well-known crowded street of that name extended.

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**Who acts:** company, that, known crowded street · **What happens:** mount, drive away, be, know, extend · **To what, where:** Boulevard Sebastopol

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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 (company, that, known crowded street), 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:pg27200:26:50
# text = The company mounted and drove away along the Boulevard de Sebastopol, that is to say, the underground boulevard, over which the well-known crowded street of that name extended.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Boulevard	Boulevard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Sebastopol	Sebastopol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boulevard	boulevard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | the company |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive away** | past | the company *not said here* |  |  | the Boulevard Sebastopol |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along sebastopol=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **extend** | past | the known crowded street of that name |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over which=Path |

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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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