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title: Then he wandered away into one of the narrowest streets, where there… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he wandered away into one of the narrowest streets, where there was scarcely room for a loaded donkey to pass. Who acts: boy, scarcely room. 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 59

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Then he wandered away into one of the narrowest streets, where there was scarcely room for a loaded donkey to pass.

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**Who acts:** boy, scarcely room · **What happens:** wander away, be, load, pass

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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 (boy, scarcely room), 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:pg27200:89:59
# text = Then he wandered away into one of the narrowest streets, where there was scarcely room for a loaded donkey to pass.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander away** | past | boy |  |  |  | then | into one of the narrowest streets; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | past | scarcely room for a loaded donkey |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **load** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | scarcely room for a loaded donkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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