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title: He stood a long time musing on the bridge which crosses the Arno, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood a long time musing on the bridge which crosses the Arno, and looking at the glittering stars, reflected in the water which flowed between him and the elegant marble bridge Della Trinita. Who acts: boy, long time, bridge, water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 9

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He stood a long time musing on the bridge which crosses the Arno, and looking at the glittering stars, reflected in the water which flowed between him and the elegant marble bridge Della Trinita.

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**Who acts:** boy, long time, bridge, water · **What happens:** stand, muse, cross, look, reflect, flow · **To what, where:** Arno, glittering stars, water

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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, long time, bridge, water), 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:pg27200:89:9
# text = He stood a long time musing on the bridge which crosses the Arno, and looking at the glittering stars, reflected in the water which flowed between him and the elegant marble bridge Della Trinita.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	musing	muse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Arno	arno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	glittering	glittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
35	Della	Della	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
36	Trinita	Trinita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | boy |  |  |  | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **muse** | gerund | a long time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the bridge | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on bridge=Topic |
| 3 | **cross** | present | the bridge | the Arno |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arno=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the glittering stars and the elegant marble bridge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme |
| 5 | **reflect** | participle |  | the glittering stars and the elegant marble bridge *not said here* |  | the water |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **flow** | past | the water |  |  |  |  | between boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between he=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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