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title: There sat the two grown-up persons; grown-up, and yet children; chil… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There sat the two grown-up persons; grown-up, and yet children; children at least in heart; and it was summer-time; summer, glorious summer! Who acts: heart. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 78

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There sat the two grown-up persons; grown-up, and yet children; children at least in heart; and it was summer-time; summer, glorious summer!

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** sit, grow up, be · **To what, where:** two grown persons, summer time

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg1597:15:78
# text = There sat the two grown-up persons; grown-up, and yet children; children at least in heart; and it was summer-time; summer, glorious summer!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
33	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the two grown persons |  | there | summer | children *obl*; children *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location person=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | heart | summer time |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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