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title: So he walked on to the river, which was deep and broad, and threw th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So he walked on to the river, which was deep and broad, and threw the sack containing the old drover into the water, believing it to be Little Claus. " Who acts: Claus, river, sack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 176

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So he walked on to the river, which was deep and broad, and threw the sack containing the old drover into the water, believing it to be Little Claus. "

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**Who acts:** Claus, river, sack · **What happens:** walk on, be, throw, contain, believe · **To what, where:** sack, old drover, water, river, Little Claus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus, river, sack), 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:pg27200:71:176
# text = So he walked on to the river, which was deep and broad, and threw the sack containing the old drover into the water, believing it to be Little Claus. "
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	drover	drover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
34	"	"	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 | **walk on** | past | Claus |  |  |  |  | to the river *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | the river |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the river *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** | past | Claus *not said here* | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |
| 5 | **contain** | gerund | the sack *not said here* | the old drover |  | the water |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot drover=Theme |
| 6 | **believe** | gerund | Claus *not said here* | river |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Little Claus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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