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title: The books travelled all over the world, and some of them came into t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The books travelled all over the world, and some of them came into the hands of the emperor; and he sat in his golden chair, and, as he read, he nodded his approval every moment, for it pleased him to find such a beautiful description of his city, his palace, and his gardens. Who acts: books, some, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 15

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The books travelled all over the world, and some of them came into the hands of the emperor; and he sat in his golden chair, and, as he read, he nodded his approval every moment, for it pleased him to find such a beautiful description of his city, his palace, and his gardens.

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**Who acts:** books, some, poetry · **What happens:** travel, come, sit, read, nod, find · **To what, where:** world, hands, gardens, golden chair, approval, beautiful description

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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 (books, some, poetry), 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:pg27200:125:15
# text = The books travelled all over the world, and some of them came into the hands of the emperor; and he sat in his golden chair, and, as he read, he nodded his approval every moment, for it pleased him to find such a beautiful description of his city, his palace, and his gardens.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
48	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	51	det:predet	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | the books |  |  | the world |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | some |  |  | the hands of the emperor |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | poetry | poetry's gardens |  | poetry's golden chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location |
| 4 | **read** | past | poetry |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **nod** | past | poetry | poetry's approval |  |  | moment |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Patient |
| 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | poetry *not said here* | such beautiful description of poetry's city and poetry's palace |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Topic |
| 7 | **approve** |  | poetry |  |  |  |  |  | nom approval «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **describe** |  |  | poetry's city |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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