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title: So then they went on at a rapid pace through the streets of Florence… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So then they went on at a rapid pace through the streets of Florence, till they came to the square before the church of Santa Croce. Who acts: eyes. 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 45

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So then they went on at a rapid pace through the streets of Florence, till they came to the square before the church of Santa Croce.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** go on, come · **To what, where:** streets, square

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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: who acts (eyes), 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:pg27200:89:45
# text = So then they went on at a rapid pace through the streets of Florence, till they came to the square before the church of Santa Croce.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	Croce	Croce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the streets of Florence | then | at a rapid pace | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pace=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the square | before the church of Santa |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to square=Initial\_Location |

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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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