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title: Those Greenlanders who had quarrelled stepped forward, and the offen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 16

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Those Greenlanders who had quarrelled stepped forward, and the offended person chanted forth the faults of his adversary in an extempore song, turning them sharply into ridicule, to the sound of the pipe and the measure of the dance.

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**Who acts:** Greenlanders, offended person, faults · **What happens:** quarrell, step forward, chant, turn, fault, measure · **To what, where:** faults, ridicule, adversary, dance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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 (Greenlanders, offended person, faults), 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:pg27200:100:16
# text = Those Greenlanders who had quarrelled stepped forward, and the offended person chanted forth the faults of his adversary in an extempore song, turning them sharply into ridicule, to the sound of the pipe and the measure of the dance.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Greenlanders	greenlander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	chanted	chant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	extempore	extempore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrell** | past · perfect | that Greenlanders |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **step forward** | participle | that Greenlanders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chant** | participle | the offended person *not said here* | the faults of person's adversary in a extempore song |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
| 4 | **turn** | gerund | the faults of person's adversary in a extempore song *not said here* | faults *= fault* |  | ridicule |  | to the sound of the pipe and the measure of the dance; sharply *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into ridicule=Source to sound=Trajectory |
| 5 | **fault** |  |  | person's adversary in a extempore song |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **measure** |  |  | the dance |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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.

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