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title: All stood with enraptured faces round Thorwaldsen's grave, and a few… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All stood with enraptured faces round Thorwaldsen's grave, and a few picked up the fallen rose-leaves and preserved them. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 196

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All stood with enraptured faces round Thorwaldsen's grave, and a few picked up the fallen rose-leaves and preserved them.

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**What happens:** stand, enrapture, pick up, fall, preserve · **To what, where:** few, leaves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:124:196
# text = All stood with enraptured faces round Thorwaldsen's grave, and a few picked up the fallen rose-leaves and preserved them.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	enraptured	enrapture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Thorwaldsen	Thorwaldsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
18	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with enraptured faces; round Thorwaldsen's grave | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enrapture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pick up** | participle · passive |  | a few |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **preserve** | past |  | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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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