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title: Without a saddle, she would sit on a horse as if she were a part of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Without a saddle, she would sit on a horse as if she were a part of it, while it rushed along at full speed; nor would she spring from its back, even when it quarrelled with other horses and bit them. Who acts: Viking, part. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 22

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Without a saddle, she would sit on a horse as if she were a part of it, while it rushed along at full speed; nor would she spring from its back, even when it quarrelled with other horses and bit them.

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**Who acts:** Viking, part · **What happens:** sit, be, rush, spring, quarrell, bite · **To what, where:** part, full speed, back, words

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Viking, part), 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:pg27200:85:22
# text = Without a saddle, she would sit on a horse as if she were a part of it, while it rushed along at full speed; nor would she spring from its back, even when it quarrelled with other horses and bit them.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	along	along	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | would | Viking |  |  |  |  | without a saddle; on a horse | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Viking | a part |  |  |  | of part | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush** | past | part |  |  | full speed |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory |
| 4 | **spring** | would | Viking |  |  | part's back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from back=Trajectory |
| 5 | **quarrell** | past | part |  |  |  |  | with other horses | tree rules |
| 6 | **bite** | past | part *not said here* | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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