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title: "I know every step of the way," said she; "and my thoughts are colle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I know every step of the way," said she; "and my thoughts are collected, while yours are down in the valley yonder. Who acts: river, yours, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 18

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"I know every step of the way," said she; "and my thoughts are collected, while yours are down in the valley yonder.

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**Who acts:** river, yours, my · **What happens:** know, say, collect, be, step, think · **To what, where:** step, thoughts, valley, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, yours, 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:pg27200:56:18
# text = "I know every step of the way," said she; "and my thoughts are collected, while yours are down in the valley yonder.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | river | every step of the way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | river |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **collect** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | my thoughts |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | yours |  |  | the valley |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **step** *in a quote* |  |  | the way |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **think** *in a quote* |  | 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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