--- title: In the midst of the circle, and divested of his furry cloak, stood a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the midst of the circle, and divested of his furry cloak, stood a Greenlander, with a small pipe, and he played and sang a song about catching the seal, and the chorus around chimed in with, 'Eia, Eia, Ah.' Who acts: lily, song. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lily, song), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:100:13 # text = In the midst of the circle, and divested of his furry cloak, stood a Greenlander, with a small pipe, and he played and sang a song about catching the seal, and the chorus around chimed in with, 'Eia, Eia, Ah.' 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 divested divest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Greenlander Greenlander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 about about SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 catching catch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 chorus chorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 around around ADP IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 chimed chime VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 40 obl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 Eia Eia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Eia Eia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 40 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divest** | past | | | | the midst of the circle | | of lily's furry cloak | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of cloak=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | | a Greenlander | | | | with a small pipe | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer greenlander=Stimulus | | 3 | **play** | past | lily | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | lily *not said here* | a song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | gerund | a song *not said here* | the seal | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme | | 6 | **chime** | participle · passive | | the chorus | | | | Eia and Eia *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/14/) - ↑ back to [Ninth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/)