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title: The old people sat at their supper, casting friendly glances at the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old people sat at their supper, casting friendly glances at the old lamp, whom they would willingly have admitted to a place at the table. Who acts: old people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 80

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The old people sat at their supper, casting friendly glances at the old lamp, whom they would willingly have admitted to a place at the table.

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**Who acts:** old people · **What happens:** sit, cast, admit · **To what, where:** supper, friendly glances, old lamp, people

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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 (old people), 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:pg27200:133:80
# text = The old people sat at their supper, casting friendly glances at the old lamp, whom they would willingly have admitted to a place at the table.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the old people |  |  | people's supper |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at supper=Location |
| 2 | **cast** | gerund | the old people *not said here* | friendly glances |  | the old lamp |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at lamp=Destination |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | would · perfect · passive |  | people |  |  |  | to a place at the table; willingly *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme whom=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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