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title: The two boys walked first, with their crossbows on their shoulders,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The two boys walked first, with their crossbows on their shoulders, and little Ida followed, carrying the pretty box containing the dead flowers. Who acts: two boys, little Ida, pretty box. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 143

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The two boys walked first, with their crossbows on their shoulders, and little Ida followed, carrying the pretty box containing the dead flowers.

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**Who acts:** two boys, little Ida, pretty box · **What happens:** walk, follow, carry, contain · **To what, where:** pretty box, dead flowers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two boys, little Ida, pretty box), 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:pg27200:73:143
# text = The two boys walked first, with their crossbows on their shoulders, and little Ida followed, carrying the pretty box containing the dead flowers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	crossbows	crossbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the two boys |  |  |  |  | with cousins's crossbows on cousins's shoulders; first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | little Ida |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | little Ida *not said here* | the pretty box |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | the pretty box *not said here* | the dead flowers |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flower=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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