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title: One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the ot… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house: Who acts: other half. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 8

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One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house:

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**Who acts:** other half · **What happens:** seat, await, result, observe · **To what, where:** One half, card table, result, preliminary observation, lady

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other half), 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:pg1597:5:8
# text = One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house:
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	nsubj	_	_
18	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	stereotype	stereotype	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	preliminary	preliminary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	observation	observation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | One half of the company |  | the card table |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **await** | past | the other half | the result of the preliminary observation of the lady of the house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **result** |  |  | the preliminary observation of the lady of the house |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **observe** |  |  | the lady of the house |  |  |  |  | nom observation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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