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title: The two schoolboys, the proprietors now of the transformed clerk, ca… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The two schoolboys, the proprietors now of the transformed clerk, carried him into an elegant room. Who acts: two schoolboys. 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 107

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The two schoolboys, the proprietors now of the transformed clerk, carried him into an elegant room.

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**Who acts:** two schoolboys · **What happens:** transform, carry · **To what, where:** Clerk, elegant room

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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 (two schoolboys), 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:pg1597:8:107
# text = The two schoolboys, the proprietors now of the transformed clerk, carried him into an elegant room.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	proprietors	proprietor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the two schoolboys and the proprietors | Clerk |  | a elegant room | now | of the transformed clerk | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme of clerk=Initial\_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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