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title: One carriage after another rolls over it; but I did not follow them,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One carriage after another rolls over it; but I did not follow them, for my eye loves best to rest upon one point. Who acts: One carriage, I, eye. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 3

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One carriage after another rolls over it; but I did not follow them, for my eye loves best to rest upon one point.

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**Who acts:** One carriage, I, eye · **What happens:** roll, not follow, love, rest · **To what, where:** forest, sea, best, one point

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One carriage, I, eye), 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:pg27200:98:3
# text = One carriage after another rolls over it; but I did not follow them, for my eye loves best to rest upon one point.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
5	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present | One carriage after another |  |  | forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **follow** | past · do-support | I | sea |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **love** | present | my eye | best |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | my eye *not said here* |  |  | one point |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon point=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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