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title: They had crossed high ridges, and traversed snow-fields; they could… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had crossed high ridges, and traversed snow-fields; they could even see her native valley, with its familiar wooden cottages. Who acts: homewards. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 62

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They had crossed high ridges, and traversed snow-fields; they could even see her native valley, with its familiar wooden cottages.

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**Who acts:** homewards · **What happens:** cross, traverse, see · **To what, where:** high ridges, native valley

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homewards), 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:pg27200:52:62
# text = They had crossed high ridges, and traversed snow-fields; they could even see her native valley, with its familiar wooden cottages.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	traversed	traverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cottages	cottage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past · perfect | homewards *= homeward* | high ridges |  |  |  | traversed snow fields *obl* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient |
| 2 | **traverse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | could | homewards *= homeward* | mother's native valley |  |  |  | with way's familiar wooden cottages | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valley=Stimulus |

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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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