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title: I was running along the dirty road by the side of the carriage as hu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I was running along the dirty road by the side of the carriage as hungry as a dog could be, chewing the cud of my own thoughts, which were rather in confusion. Who acts: I, own thoughts, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 14

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I was running along the dirty road by the side of the carriage as hungry as a dog could be, chewing the cud of my own thoughts, which were rather in confusion.

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**Who acts:** I, own thoughts, my · **What happens:** run, chew, be, think · **To what, where:** dirty road, cud, confusion

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, own thoughts, my), 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:pg27200:53:14
# text = I was running along the dirty road by the side of the carriage as hungry as a dog could be, chewing the cud of my own thoughts, which were rather in confusion.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cud	cud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | I |  |  | the dirty road |  | by the side of the carriage | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **chew** | gerund | I *not said here* | the cud of my own thoughts and confusion |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | my own thoughts and confusion |  |  | confusion |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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