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title: Then at last he had fallen to the earth, and could remember no more,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then at last he had fallen to the earth, and could remember no more, nor how he came to be where she had found him. Who acts: snow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 110

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Then at last he had fallen to the earth, and could remember no more, nor how he came to be where she had found him.

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**Who acts:** snow · **What happens:** fall, remember, come, find · **To what, where:** last, more, earth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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:pg27200:79:110
# text = Then at last he had fallen to the earth, and could remember no more, nor how he came to be where she had found him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | snow |  |  | last | then | to the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **remember** | could |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive |  | earth |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |

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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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