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title: The worthy man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house, f… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The worthy man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house, for there was still a light in the window; but he did not like disturbing the other people in their beds, and so very considerately he left the matter alone. Who acts: light. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 30

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The worthy man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house, for there was still a light in the window; but he did not like disturbing the other people in their beds, and so very considerately he left the matter alone.

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**Who acts:** light · **What happens:** incline, ring, deliver, be, not like, disturb · **To what, where:** worthy man, galoshes, house, other people, beds, matter

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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:pg1597:6:30
# text = The worthy man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house, for there was still a light in the window; but he did not like disturbing the other people in their beds, and so very considerately he left the matter alone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
30	disturbing	disturb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	considerately	considerately	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | past · passive |  | the worthy man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ring** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** | infinitive |  | galoshes *= galosh* |  | the house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | past | a light in the window |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | light |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **disturb** *not said to happen* | gerund | light *not said here* | the other people |  | galoshes's beds |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 7 | **leave** | past | light | the matter |  |  |  | alone, considerately *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=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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