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title: So the copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as priso… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as prisoner in a family living in Gother Street. Who acts: copying clerk, family. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 103

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So the copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as prisoner in a family living in Gother Street.

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**Who acts:** copying clerk, family · **What happens:** come, live · **To what, where:** Copenhagen, Gother Street

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (copying clerk, family), 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:pg1597:8:103
# text = So the copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as prisoner in a family living in Gother Street.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Gother	Gother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the copying clerk |  |  | Copenhagen |  | as guest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to copenhagen=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | a family *not said here* |  |  | Gother Street |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |

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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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