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title: But when the torches had passed from before me, and I could look rou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the torches had passed from before me, and I could look round, I saw one person alone, standing, leaning against my post, and weeping. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 25

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But when the torches had passed from before me, and I could look round, I saw one person alone, standing, leaning against my post, and weeping.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pass, look round, see, stand, lean · **To what, where:** torches, one person, post

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:133:25
# text = But when the torches had passed from before me, and I could look round, I saw one person alone, standing, leaning against my post, and weeping.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | the torches |  |  |  | from me; weeping *obl* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look round** | could | I |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | I | one person |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lean** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | my post |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against post=Location |

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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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