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title: Such were Anthony's thoughts as he stood under the tree, and during… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Such were Anthony's thoughts as he stood under the tree, and during many a long night as he lay in his lonely chamber in the wooden house in Hauschen Street, Copenhagen, in the foreign land to which the rich merchant of Bremen, his employer, had sent him on condition that he should never marry. " Wh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 174

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Such were Anthony's thoughts as he stood under the tree, and during many a long night as he lay in his lonely chamber in the wooden house in Hauschen Street, Copenhagen, in the foreign land to which the rich merchant of Bremen, his employer, had sent him on condition that he should never marry. "

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**Who acts:** Such thoughts, many, number · **What happens:** be, stand, lie, send, not marry · **To what, where:** Such thoughts, tree, lonely chamber, rich merchant, condition

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such thoughts, many, number), 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:pg27200:128:174
# text = Such were Anthony's thoughts as he stood under the tree, and during many a long night as he lay in his lonely chamber in the wooden house in Hauschen Street, Copenhagen, in the foreign land to which the rich merchant of Bremen, his employer, had sent him on condition that he should never marry. "
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	employer	employer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
60	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Anthony's Such thoughts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Anthony's Such thoughts |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | many |  |  | number's lonely chamber in the wooden house in Hauschen Street |  | in the foreign land | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location |
| 4 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rich merchant of Bremen and number's employer |  | condition |  | to the foreign land | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **marry** | should | number |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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