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title: Not only the guests but other people were walking in the garden, who… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Not only the guests but other people were walking in the garden, who were allowed to witness the splendor and the festivities. Who acts: guests, other people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 116

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Not only the guests but other people were walking in the garden, who were allowed to witness the splendor and the festivities.

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**Who acts:** guests, other people · **What happens:** walk, allow, witness · **To what, where:** garden, other people, splendor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:976`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:13:116
# text = Not only the guests but other people were walking in the garden, who were allowed to witness the splendor and the festivities.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	witness	witness	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | the guests but other people |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory |
| 2 | **allow** | past · passive |  | other people |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **witness** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | other people *not said here* | the splendor and the festivities |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splendor=Beneficiary |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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