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title: The deer that had come down to the river to quench her thirst, spran… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The deer that had come down to the river to quench her thirst, sprang by with a startled bound, for in her hand the maiden bore a lighted lamp. Who acts: deer, maiden, thought. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 5

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The deer that had come down to the river to quench her thirst, sprang by with a startled bound, for in her hand the maiden bore a lighted lamp.

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**Who acts:** deer, maiden, thought · **What happens:** come down, quench, spring, startle, bear, light · **To what, where:** river, thirst, lighted lamp

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, maiden, thought), 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:pg27200:92:5
# text = The deer that had come down to the river to quench her thirst, sprang by with a startled bound, for in her hand the maiden bore a lighted lamp.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sprang	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | the deer |  |  | the river |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **quench** | to-infinitive | the deer *not said here* | thought's thirst |  |  |  | for thought's hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer |
| 3 | **spring** | participle |  | thought's thirst *not said here* |  |  |  | by a startled bound | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bound=Trajectory |
| 4 | **startle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **bear** | past | the maiden | a lighted lamp |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient |
| 6 | **light** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **thirst** |  | thought |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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