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title: Close by her galloped four snorting steeds, with fire flashing from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Close by her galloped four snorting steeds, with fire flashing from their eyes and nostrils. Who acts: Anne, fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 148

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Close by her galloped four snorting steeds, with fire flashing from their eyes and nostrils.

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**Who acts:** Anne, fire · **What happens:** gallop, flash · **To what, where:** four snorting steeds, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, fire), 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:pg27200:5:148
# text = Close by her galloped four snorting steeds, with fire flashing from their eyes and nostrils.
1	Close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	snorting	snorting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop** | past | Anne | four snorting steeds |  |  |  | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Agent |
| 2 | **flash** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  | steeds's eyes and nostrils |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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