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title: But the lizards continued to run up and down the riven tree; and one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the lizards continued to run up and down the riven tree; and one said to the other, "Oh, how much I was pleased with the old goblin!" Who acts: lizards, one, much. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 112

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But the lizards continued to run up and down the riven tree; and one said to the other, "Oh, how much I was pleased with the old goblin!"

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**Who acts:** lizards, one, much · **What happens:** continue, run up, say, be · **To what, where:** other · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lizards, one, much), 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:pg27200:31:112
# text = But the lizards continued to run up and down the riven tree; and one said to the other, "Oh, how much I was pleased with the old goblin!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	riven	riven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the lizards |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run up** | to-infinitive | the lizards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | one |  | the other |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | much |  |  |  |  | with the old goblin; pleased *property* | tree rules |

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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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