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title: The bridal pair were seated on the floor, leaning against the leg of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bridal pair were seated on the floor, leaning against the leg of the table, looking very thoughtful, and with good reason. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 135

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The bridal pair were seated on the floor, leaning against the leg of the table, looking very thoughtful, and with good reason.

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**What happens:** seat, lean, look · **To what, where:** bridal pair, floor, leg

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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: 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:pg27200:134:135
# text = The bridal pair were seated on the floor, leaning against the leg of the table, looking very thoughtful, and with good reason.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | the bridal pair |  | the floor |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund |  |  |  | the leg of the table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against leg=Location |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thoughtful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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