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title: They were now eating their supper, while the old street lamp, as we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were now eating their supper, while the old street lamp, as we have heard, lay in the grandfather's arm-chair near the stove. Who acts: clock, we. 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 every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 89

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They were now eating their supper, while the old street lamp, as we have heard, lay in the grandfather's arm-chair near the stove.

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**Who acts:** clock, we · **What happens:** eat, hear, lay · **To what, where:** supper, arm chair

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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 (clock, we), 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:pg27200:133:89
# text = They were now eating their supper, while the old street lamp, as we have heard, lay in the grandfather's arm-chair near the stove.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · progressive | clock | clock's supper |  |  | now | the old street lamp *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lay** | present | we *not said here* |  |  | the grandfather's arm chair near the stove |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in chair=Destination |

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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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