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title: This channel sometimes overflowed, and made the path so slippery tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This channel sometimes overflowed, and made the path so slippery that any one passing that way might easily fall in, and be carried towards the mill wheel with frightful rapidity. Who acts: channel, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 18

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This channel sometimes overflowed, and made the path so slippery that any one passing that way might easily fall in, and be carried towards the mill wheel with frightful rapidity.

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**Who acts:** channel, one · **What happens:** overflow, make, pass, fall in, carry · **To what, where:** path, way, mill wheel

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (channel, one), 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:pg27200:62:18
# text = This channel sometimes overflowed, and made the path so slippery that any one passing that way might easily fall in, and be carried towards the mill wheel with frightful rapidity.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	overflowed	overflow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
26	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** | past | this channel |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | this channel *not said here* | the path |  |  |  | slippery *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset path=Product |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund | any one *not said here* | that way |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fall in** | might | any one |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive · passive | this channel *not said here* |  |  | the mill wheel |  | with frightful rapidity | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: towards wheel=Destination |

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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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