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title: The prisoner understood her, and they rode on at a rapid trot, by a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The prisoner understood her, and they rode on at a rapid trot, by a road which he would never have found by himself, across the open heath. Who acts: prisoner, prisoners, handsomest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 98

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The prisoner understood her, and they rode on at a rapid trot, by a road which he would never have found by himself, across the open heath.

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**Who acts:** prisoner, prisoners, handsomest · **What happens:** understand, ride on, not find · **To what, where:** figure, rapid trot, road

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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 (prisoner, prisoners, handsomest), 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:pg27200:85:98
# text = The prisoner understood her, and they rode on at a rapid trot, by a road which he would never have found by himself, across the open heath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trot	trot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	across	across	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | the prisoner | figure |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ride on** | past | prisoners *= prisoner* |  |  | a rapid trot |  | by a road; across the open heath | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across heath=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **find** | would · perfect | handsomest *= handsome* | a road |  |  |  | by handsomest *= handsome* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |

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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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