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title: Then suddenly the poor boy with the short-sleeved jacket and the woo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly the poor boy with the short-sleeved jacket and the wooden shoes appeared; he had arrived just as quickly on the road he had chosen. Who acts: poor boy, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 68

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Then suddenly the poor boy with the short-sleeved jacket and the wooden shoes appeared; he had arrived just as quickly on the road he had chosen.

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**Who acts:** poor boy, boy · **What happens:** sleeve, appear, arrive, choose · **To what, where:** road

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor boy, boy), 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:pg27200:9:68
# text = Then suddenly the poor boy with the short-sleeved jacket and the wooden shoes appeared; he had arrived just as quickly on the road he had chosen.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sleeved	sleeve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleeve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the poor boy with the sleeved jacket and the wooden shoes |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past · perfect | boy |  |  | the road |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **choose** | past · perfect | boy | the road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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