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title: When they came to the tragic theatre, they all sat down on the amphi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the tragic theatre, they all sat down on the amphitheatre steps, and thus a small part of the house was occupied by an audience, as it had been many centuries ago. Who acts: signs, audience, part. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 12

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When they came to the tragic theatre, they all sat down on the amphitheatre steps, and thus a small part of the house was occupied by an audience, as it had been many centuries ago.

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**Who acts:** signs, audience, part · **What happens:** come, sit down, occupy, be · **To what, where:** tragic theatre, small part

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signs, audience, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6994`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:102:12
# text = When they came to the tragic theatre, they all sat down on the amphitheatre steps, and thus a small part of the house was occupied by an audience, as it had been many centuries ago.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tragic	tragic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	amphitheatre	amphitheatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	cop	_	_
36	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	27	advcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | signs *= sign* |  |  | the tragic theatre |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | signs *= sign* |  |  |  |  | on the amphitheatre steps | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
| 3 | **occupy** | past · passive | a audience | a small part of the house |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | part |  |  |  | century | ago *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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