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title: At each castle stood little princes acting as sentinels. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At each castle stood little princes acting as sentinels. Who acts: little princes. 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 47

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At each castle stood little princes acting as sentinels.

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**Who acts:** little princes · **What happens:** stand, act · **To what, where:** little princes, castle

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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 (little princes), 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:pg27200:134:47
# text = At each castle stood little princes acting as sentinels.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | little princes |  | each castle |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme at castle=Destination |
| 2 | **act** | gerund | little princes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as sentinels | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as sentinel=Attribute |

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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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