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title: Then he took from the book-case, a book full of pictures representin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took from the book-case, a book full of pictures representing long processions of wonderful coaches, such as are never seen at the present time. Who acts: man, pictures, wonderful coaches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 57

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Then he took from the book-case, a book full of pictures representing long processions of wonderful coaches, such as are never seen at the present time.

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**Who acts:** man, pictures, wonderful coaches · **What happens:** take, represent, not see, proceed · **To what, where:** book, book case, long processions

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, pictures, wonderful coaches), 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:pg27200:131:57
# text = Then he took from the book-case, a book full of pictures representing long processions of wonderful coaches, such as are never seen at the present time.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	processions	procession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	coaches	coach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | man | a book |  | the book case | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from case=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **represent** | gerund | pictures *not said here* | long processions of wonderful coaches |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot procession=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present · passive |  | long processions of wonderful coaches *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **proceed** |  | wonderful coaches |  |  |  |  |  | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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