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title: And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to app… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold. Who acts: lords, train. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 90

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And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold.

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**Who acts:** lords, train · **What happens:** take, appear, hold up, be, hold · **To what, where:** greater pains, train, reality

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, train), 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:pg1597:2:90
# text = And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	appear	appear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the lords of the bedchamber | greater pains |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **hold up** | gerund |  | a train |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot train=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | no train |  |  | reality; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reality=Location |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive | no train *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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