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title: While seated in the evening on his little cane-chair, he had often h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: While seated in the evening on his little cane-chair, he had often heard his father read from Gellert's fables, and sometimes from Klopstock's grand poem, "The Messiah." Who acts: boy, father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album),
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 19

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While seated in the evening on his little cane-chair, he had often heard his father read from Gellert's fables, and sometimes from Klopstock's grand poem, "The Messiah."

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**Who acts:** boy, father · **What happens:** seat, hear, read · **To what, where:** fables

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, father), 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:pg27200:129:19
# text = While seated in the evening on his little cane-chair, he had often heard his father read from Gellert's fables, and sometimes from Klopstock's grand poem, "The Messiah."
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	Klopstock	Klopstock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Messiah	Messiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | participle | boy *not said here* |  |  |  | evening |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | boy |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **read** | past | boy's father |  |  | Gellert's fables |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fable=Source |

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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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