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description: While musing on this strange affair, and without looking to the right or left, he walked on through East Street and over Highbridge Place. Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 18

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While musing on this strange affair, and without looking to the right or left, he walked on through East Street and over Highbridge Place.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** muse, look, leave, walk on · **To what, where:** East Street

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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:pg27200:41:18
# text = While musing on this strange affair, and without looking to the right or left, he walked on through East Street and over Highbridge Place.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	musing	muse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Highbridge	Highbridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Place	Place	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **muse** | gerund | gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on this strange affair | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on affair=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the right | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **walk on** | past | gentleman |  |  | East Street and Highbridge Place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |

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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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