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title: And did that occupation seem more agreeable to him than watching the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And did that occupation seem more agreeable to him than watching the wax lights in the temple? Who acts: occupation. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 14

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And did that occupation seem more agreeable to him than watching the wax lights in the temple?

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**Who acts:** occupation · **What happens:** do, seem, watch · **To what, where:** wax lights, temple

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (occupation), 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:pg27200:117:14
# text = And did that occupation seem more agreeable to him than watching the wax lights in the temple?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | that occupation |  |  |  |  | agreeable *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | that occupation *not said here* | the wax lights |  | the temple |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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