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title: There sat the be-praised poet, the tame one; all the guests paid hom… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There sat the be-praised poet, the tame one; all the guests paid homage to him, and he was happy. Who acts: guests, editor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 37

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There sat the be-praised poet, the tame one; all the guests paid homage to him, and he was happy.

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**Who acts:** guests, editor · **What happens:** sit, praise, be, pay · **To what, where:** praised poet, homage, editor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, editor), 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:pg27200:103:37
# text = There sat the be-praised poet, the tame one; all the guests paid homage to him, and he was happy.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	praised	praise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **praise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | the praised poet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | past | all guests | homage | editor |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Asset |
| 5 | **is** | past | editor |  |  |  |  | happy *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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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