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title: The congregation sat in cushioned seats, and sang out of their Praye… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The congregation sat in cushioned seats, and sang out of their Prayer-Books. Who acts: congregation. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 95

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The congregation sat in cushioned seats, and sang out of their Prayer-Books.

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**Who acts:** congregation · **What happens:** sit, cushion, sing out · **To what, where:** cushioned seats, Prayer Books

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (congregation), 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:pg1597:27:95
# text = The congregation sat in cushioned seats, and sang out of their Prayer-Books.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cushioned	cushion	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the congregation |  |  | cushioned seats |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 2 | **cushion** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing out** *speech: express* | past | the congregation *not said here* | walls's Prayer Books |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=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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