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title: They were walking and driving here and there from the sea to the lan… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were walking and driving here and there from the sea to the land at the, spot where the river terminates. Who acts: people, river. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 190

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They were walking and driving here and there from the sea to the land at the, spot where the river terminates.

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**Who acts:** people, river · **What happens:** walk, drive, spot, terminate · **To what, where:** sea

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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 (people, river), 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:pg27200:71:190
# text = They were walking and driving here and there from the sea to the land at the, spot where the river terminates.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	terminates	terminate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | people |  |  |  |  | to the land *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result |
| 2 | **drive** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | the sea; here |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **spot** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 4 | **terminate** | present | the river |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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