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title: Then he went on a little farther and stumbled against a piece of bro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he went on a little farther and stumbled against a piece of broken crockery-ware, which certainly ought not to have been lying there. Who acts: beetle, piece. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 58

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Then he went on a little farther and stumbled against a piece of broken crockery-ware, which certainly ought not to have been lying there.

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**Who acts:** beetle, piece · **What happens:** go on, stumble, not lie · **To what, where:** piece

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beetle, piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:505`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:8:58
# text = Then he went on a little farther and stumbled against a piece of broken crockery-ware, which certainly ought not to have been lying there.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	crockery	crockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
21	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux	_	_
26	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | beetle |  |  |  | then | far *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stumble** | past | beetle *not said here* |  |  | a piece of broken crockery ware |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against piece=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **lie** | ought · perfect · progressive | a piece of broken crockery ware |  |  | there |  | certainly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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