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title: The lazzarone sleeps under the arcade, whose pavement in old times w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lazzarone sleeps under the arcade, whose pavement in old times was to be trodden only by the feet of high nobility. Who acts: lazzarone, feet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 19

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The lazzarone sleeps under the arcade, whose pavement in old times was to be trodden only by the feet of high nobility.

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**Who acts:** lazzarone, feet · **What happens:** sleep, tread · **To what, where:** arcade

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lazzarone, feet), 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:pg27200:108:19
# text = The lazzarone sleeps under the arcade, whose pavement in old times was to be trodden only by the feet of high nobility.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lazzarone	lazzarone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	arcade	arcade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	nobility	nobility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | the lazzarone |  |  | the arcade and the arcade and the arcade's pavement's pavement |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tread** | past · passive | the feet of high nobility |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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