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title: Next morning, their neighbor, the artist, passed by, carrying a pain… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning, their neighbor, the artist, passed by, carrying a paint-box and a large roll of canvas. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 108

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Next morning, their neighbor, the artist, passed by, carrying a paint-box and a large roll of canvas.

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**What happens:** pass by, carry, roll · **To what, where:** paint box, canvas

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:89:108
# text = Next morning, their neighbor, the artist, passed by, carrying a paint-box and a large roll of canvas.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	canvas	canvas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund |  | a paint box and a large roll of canvas |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** |  |  | canvas |  |  |  |  | nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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