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title: She hastened to cross the green, slimy ground; but it will not bear… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She hastened to cross the green, slimy ground; but it will not bear any weight, much less hers. Who acts: child, ground. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 50

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She hastened to cross the green, slimy ground; but it will not bear any weight, much less hers.

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**Who acts:** child, ground · **What happens:** hasten, cross, not bear · **To what, where:** green slimy ground, weight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, ground), 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:pg27200:83:50
# text = She hastened to cross the green, slimy ground; but it will not bear any weight, much less hers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	slimy	slimy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **hasten** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the green slimy ground |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **bear** | future | ground | any weight |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient |

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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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