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title: I will drive them away across the islands!' cried the young roebuck;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will drive them away across the islands!' cried the young roebuck; 'I will drive them away across the islands into the deep sea.' Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 17

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I will drive them away across the islands!' cried the young roebuck; 'I will drive them away across the islands into the deep sea.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** drive away, cry · **To what, where:** dogs, islands, young roebuck

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:36:17
# text = I will drive them away across the islands!' cried the young roebuck; 'I will drive them away across the islands into the deep sea.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive away** | future | I | dogs *= dog* |  | the islands |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme across island=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | I *not said here* | the young roebuck |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roebuck=Topic |
| 3 | **drive away** | future | I | dogs *= dog* |  | the islands |  | into the deep sea; away *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme across island=Destination into sea=Initial\_Location |

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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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