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title: She remembered that the route by the sea-shore was two miles shorter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She remembered that the route by the sea-shore was two miles shorter than by the high road; and as the weather was clear, and there would be moonlight, she determined to make her way on foot, and to start at once, that she might reach home the next day. Who acts: Anne, route, weather, moonlight. A s
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 89

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She remembered that the route by the sea-shore was two miles shorter than by the high road; and as the weather was clear, and there would be moonlight, she determined to make her way on foot, and to start at once, that she might reach home the next day.

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**Who acts:** Anne, route, weather, moonlight · **What happens:** remember, be, determine, make, start, reach · **To what, where:** way, foot

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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, route, weather, moonlight), 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:pg27200:5:89
# text = She remembered that the route by the sea-shore was two miles shorter than by the high road; and as the weather was clear, and there would be moonlight, she determined to make her way on foot, and to start at once, that she might reach home the next day.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
53	home	home	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the route by the sea shore |  |  |  |  | than the high road; two miles *obl:unmarked*; short *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | would | moonlight |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **determine** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Anne *not said here* | Anne's way |  | foot |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 7 | **start** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **reach** | might | Anne |  |  |  | day | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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