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title: The pictures did not follow one another in order, as the circumstanc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pictures did not follow one another in order, as the circumstances they represented had occurred; very often the most painful would come together, and when those came which were most full of joy, they had always the deepest shadow thrown upon them. Who acts: pictures, circumstances, painful, tho
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 56

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The pictures did not follow one another in order, as the circumstances they represented had occurred; very often the most painful would come together, and when those came which were most full of joy, they had always the deepest shadow thrown upon them.

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**Who acts:** pictures, circumstances, painful, those · **What happens:** not follow, represent, occur, come together, come, be · **To what, where:** one, order, circumstances, deepest shadow

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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 (pictures, circumstances, painful, those), 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:pg27200:128:56
# text = The pictures did not follow one another in order, as the circumstances they represented had occurred; very often the most painful would come together, and when those came which were most full of joy, they had always the deepest shadow thrown upon them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	fixed	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
41	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	44	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	amod	_	_
44	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **follow** | past · do-support | the pictures | one |  | order |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme in order=Trajectory |
| 2 | **represent** | past | circumstances *= circumstance* | the circumstances *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot circumstance=Theme |
| 3 | **occur** | past · perfect | the circumstances |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come together** | would | the painful |  |  |  |  | often, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | those |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of joy; full *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | circumstances *= circumstance* | the deepest shadow |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |
| 8 | **throw** | participle |  | the deepest shadow *not said here* |  |  |  | upon circumstances *= circumstance* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon they=Destination |

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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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