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title: In comfortable rooms they encounter hospitality and friendly faces. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In comfortable rooms they encounter hospitality and friendly faces. Who acts: rooms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 131

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In comfortable rooms they encounter hospitality and friendly faces.

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**Who acts:** rooms · **What happens:** encounter · **To what, where:** hospitality, comfortable rooms

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rooms), 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:pg27200:12:131
# text = In comfortable rooms they encounter hospitality and friendly faces.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	encounter	encounter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | present | rooms *= room* | hospitality and friendly faces |  | comfortable rooms |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hospitality=Stimulus |

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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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