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title: More and more friends kept arriving, till the mice were nearly tread… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: More and more friends kept arriving, till the mice were nearly treading each other to death; for the bridal pair now stood in the doorway, and none could pass in or out. Who acts: More friends, mice, none. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 114

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More and more friends kept arriving, till the mice were nearly treading each other to death; for the bridal pair now stood in the doorway, and none could pass in or out.

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**Who acts:** More friends, mice, none · **What happens:** keep, arrive, tread, stand, pass · **To what, where:** each, doorway

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (More friends, mice, none), 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:pg27200:134:114
# text = More and more friends kept arriving, till the mice were nearly treading each other to death; for the bridal pair now stood in the doorway, and none could pass in or out.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	13	obj	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | More friends |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | gerund | More friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tread** | past · progressive | the mice | each |  |  |  | to death; nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | More friends *not said here* |  |  | the doorway | now | for the bridal pair | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
| 5 | **pass** | could | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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