--- title: Then all those who had "Very good," or "Exceedingly good," came in f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then all those who had "Very good," or "Exceedingly good," came in front of the horse, and heard the beautiful story; while those who had "Middling," or "Tolerably good," in their books, were obliged to sit behind, and listen to the frightful tale. Who acts: those. 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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 (those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:134:199 # text = Then all those who had "Very good," or "Exceedingly good," came in front of the horse, and heard the beautiful story; while those who had "Middling," or "Tolerably good," in their books, were obliged to sit behind, and listen to the frightful tale. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 3 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Exceedingly exceedingly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 25 obj _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Middling middling NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Tolerably tolerably ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 xcomp _ _ 52 behind behind ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 conj _ _ 56 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | those | | | front of the horse | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | | 2 | **hear** | past | | the beautiful story | | stories's books | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | | Middling | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middling=Patient | | 4 | **oblige** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result | | 5 | **sit** | to-infinitive | | | | | | behind *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | | to the frightful tale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/198/) - next →: [sentence 200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/200/) - ↑ back to [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/)