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title: Here or there one or other of them would sink on his knees, with ble… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here or there one or other of them would sink on his knees, with bleeding temples and a face as white as chalk. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 68

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Here or there one or other of them would sink on his knees, with bleeding temples and a face as white as chalk.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** sink · **To what, where:** knees

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. 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:pg27200:39:68
# text = Here or there one or other of them would sink on his knees, with bleeding temples and a face as white as chalk.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | would | one |  |  | head's knees; here |  | with bleeding temples as white and a face | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with temple=Instrument |

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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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