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title: "First, two rich landed proprietors came driving by. ' — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "First, two rich landed proprietors came driving by. ' Who acts: two rich, proprietors. 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 8

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"First, two rich landed proprietors came driving by. '

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**Who acts:** two rich, proprietors · **What happens:** land, come, drive · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (two rich, proprietors), 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:pg27200:98:8
# text = "First, two rich landed proprietors came driving by. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	proprietors	proprietor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** *in a quote* | past | two rich |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | proprietors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** *in a quote* | gerund | proprietors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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