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title: The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraord… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when they arrived at a number of willow trees on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the great branches and thought they were now really in the wood. Who acts: rich, poor, way, feelings. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 8

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The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when they arrived at a number of willow trees on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the great branches and thought they were now really in the wood.

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**Who acts:** rich, poor, way, feelings · **What happens:** drive, walk, seem, arrive, sit down, look up · **To what, where:** feelings, number, wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rich, poor, way, feelings), 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:pg27200:9:8
# text = The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when they arrived at a number of willow trees on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the great branches and thought they were now really in the wood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	extraordinarily	extraordinarily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
48	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
49	really	really	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | the rich |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the poor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the way |  | feelings *= feeling* |  |  | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | feelings *= feeling* |  |  | a number of willow trees on the border of the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sit down** | past | feelings *= feeling* | the wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look up** | past | feelings *= feeling* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the great branches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into branch=Theme |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | feelings *= feeling* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | feelings *= feeling* |  |  | the wood | now |  | tree rules |

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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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