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title: A great crowd assembled to witness the sight; military music had bee… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A great crowd assembled to witness the sight; military music had been engaged, and many other preparations made. Who acts: great crowd. 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 122

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A great crowd assembled to witness the sight; military music had been engaged, and many other preparations made.

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**Who acts:** great crowd · **What happens:** assemble, engage, make · **To what, where:** sight, great crowd, many other preparations

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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 (great crowd), 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:pg27200:13:122
# text = A great crowd assembled to witness the sight; military music had been engaged, and many other preparations made.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **assemble** | participle | a great crowd *not said here* | the sight |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **engage** | past · perfect · passive |  | a great crowd |  |  |  | many other preparations *obl* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | many other preparations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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