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title: The bathing attendant, on his side, uttered a loud cry of astonishme… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bathing attendant, on his side, uttered a loud cry of astonishment when he beheld in the bath, a man completely dressed. Who acts: bathing attendant, sanctuary, astonishment. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 98

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The bathing attendant, on his side, uttered a loud cry of astonishment when he beheld in the bath, a man completely dressed.

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**Who acts:** bathing attendant, sanctuary, astonishment · **What happens:** utter, behold, dress, cry · **To what, where:** loud cry, bath, man

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bathing attendant, sanctuary, astonishment), 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:pg1597:7:98
# text = The bathing attendant, on his side, uttered a loud cry of astonishment when he beheld in the bath, a man completely dressed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the bathing attendant and sanctuary's side | a loud cry of astonishment |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 2 | **behold** | past | sanctuary |  |  | the bath |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** |  | astonishment |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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