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title: Among the latter came an old maid, who seemed to be quite alone in t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the latter came an old maid, who seemed to be quite alone in the world. Who acts: latter, old maid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 117

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Among the latter came an old maid, who seemed to be quite alone in the world.

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**Who acts:** latter, old maid · **What happens:** come, seem, be · **To what, where:** world

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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 (latter, old maid), 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:pg27200:13:117
# text = Among the latter came an old maid, who seemed to be quite alone in the world.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the latter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | a old maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | a old maid *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | alone *property* | tree rules |

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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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