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title: They visit Chillon, and observe on the lake the little island with t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They visit Chillon, and observe on the lake the little island with the three acacias, and then read in their guide-book the story of the bridal pair who, in the year 1856, rowed over to it. Who acts: books, bridal pair. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 85

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They visit Chillon, and observe on the lake the little island with the three acacias, and then read in their guide-book the story of the bridal pair who, in the year 1856, rowed over to it.

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**Who acts:** books, bridal pair · **What happens:** visit, observe, read, row over · **To what, where:** Chillon, lake, story, guide book, pair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (books, bridal pair), 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:pg27200:66:85
# text = They visit Chillon, and observe on the lake the little island with the three acacias, and then read in their guide-book the story of the bridal pair who, in the year 1856, rowed over to it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Chillon	Chillon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	acacias	acacia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
37	1856	1856	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
39	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
40	over	over	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | books *= book* | Chillon |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chillon=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **observe** | infinitive | books *= book* *not said here* |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive | books *= book* *not said here* | the story of the bridal pair |  | books's guide book | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 4 | **row over** | past | the bridal pair |  |  | pair | year |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to it=Trajectory |

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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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