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title: And she turned away and looked maliciously at the deep valley where… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And she turned away and looked maliciously at the deep valley where the railway train was rushing by. " Who acts: Maiden, railway train. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 21

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And she turned away and looked maliciously at the deep valley where the railway train was rushing by. "

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**Who acts:** Maiden, railway train · **What happens:** turn away, look, rush

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, railway train), 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:pg27200:60:21
# text = And she turned away and looked maliciously at the deep valley where the railway train was rushing by. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | past | Maiden |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | past | Maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the deep valley; maliciously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at valley=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | past · progressive | the railway train |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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