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title: The coachman stretched himself, though I am very sure that he had be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The coachman stretched himself, though I am very sure that he had been most comfortably asleep half the last stage. Who acts: coachman, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 5

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The coachman stretched himself, though I am very sure that he had been most comfortably asleep half the last stage.

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**Who acts:** coachman, I · **What happens:** stretch, be · **To what, where:** coachman

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, I), 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:pg27200:7303`): 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:pg27200:120:5
# text = The coachman stretched himself, though I am very sure that he had been most comfortably asleep half the last stage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
18	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | the coachman | coachman |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | coachman |  |  |  |  | half last stage *obl:unmarked*; asleep, comfortably *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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