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title: And when the omnibus returned, Rudy was again seated in it, going ho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the omnibus returned, Rudy was again seated in it, going homewards; and at the same time the parlor-cat at the miller's house ran out quickly, crying,-- Who acts: omnibus, parlor cat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 39

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And when the omnibus returned, Rudy was again seated in it, going homewards; and at the same time the parlor-cat at the miller's house ran out quickly, crying,--

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**Who acts:** omnibus, parlor cat · **What happens:** return, seat, go, run out, cry · **To what, where:** Rudy, omnibus, homewards

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (omnibus, parlor cat), 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:pg27200:57:39
# text = And when the omnibus returned, Rudy was again seated in it, going homewards; and at the same time the parlor-cat at the miller's house ran out quickly, crying,--
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	parlor	parlor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	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 | **return** | past | the omnibus |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seat** | past · passive |  | Rudy |  | omnibus | again |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in it=Location |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  | homewards |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme |
| 4 | **run out** | past | the parlor cat at the miller's house |  |  |  | time | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the parlor cat at the miller's house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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