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title: The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain. Who acts: confectioner, Bell. A sentence of «Andersen's Fair
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 9

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The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.

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**Who acts:** confectioner, Bell · **What happens:** come out, set up, come, hang, have, tar over · **To what, where:** booth, confectioner, bell, stand, clapper

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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 (confectioner, Bell), 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:pg1597:18:9
# text = The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	confectioner	confectioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	confectioner	confectioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
41	clapper	clapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	tarred	tar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
47	over	over	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the confectioner of the town |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **set up** | past | the confectioner of the town *not said here* | confectioner's booth |  | there |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient booth=Result |
| 3 | **come** | past |  | another confectioner |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confectioner=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | past | another confectioner | a bell |  | confectioner's stand |  | as a sign or ornament | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bell=Theme over stand=Destination |
| 5 | **have** | past | Bell | no clapper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clapper=Patient |
| 6 | **tar over** | past · passive |  | Bell |  |  |  | over *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 7 | **preserve** | to-infinitive |  | Bell |  |  |  | from the rain | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from rain=Theme |

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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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