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title: One can run about on tallow candles there, and go in thin and come o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One can run about on tallow candles there, and go in thin and come out fat." Who acts: One. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 113

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One can run about on tallow candles there, and go in thin and come out fat."

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** run about, go, come out · **To what, where:** tallow candles, thin

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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:pg27200:33:113
# text = One can run about on tallow candles there, and go in thin and come out fat."
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run about** | can | One |  |  | tallow candles; there |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on candle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | One *not said here* |  |  | thin |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in thin=Location |
| 3 | **come out** | present | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fat *vocative*; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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