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title: The chamberlains went out to have a talk on the matter, and the ladi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The chamberlains went out to have a talk on the matter, and the ladies'-maids invited company to take coffee. Who acts: chamberlains, maids. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 114

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The chamberlains went out to have a talk on the matter, and the ladies'-maids invited company to take coffee.

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**Who acts:** chamberlains, maids · **What happens:** go out, have, invite, company, take · **To what, where:** talk, matter, coffee

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlains, maids), 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:pg27200:125:114
# text = The chamberlains went out to have a talk on the matter, and the ladies'-maids invited company to take coffee.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	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 | **go out** | past | the chamberlains |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the chamberlains *not said here* | a talk |  | the matter |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient |
| 3 | **invite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **company** |  | the ladies's maids |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | the chamberlains *not said here* | coffee |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=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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