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title: Some he seated in front of him, and some behind, but always inquired… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Some he seated in front of him, and some behind, but always inquired first, "How stands the mark-book?" Who acts: Some. 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 196

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Some he seated in front of him, and some behind, but always inquired first, "How stands the mark-book?"

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** seat, inquire, stand · **To what, where:** front, mark book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Some), 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:pg27200:134:196
# text = Some he seated in front of him, and some behind, but always inquired first, "How stands the mark-book?"
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past | Some |  |  | front of Ole |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle | Some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | Some *not said here* | the mark book |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=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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