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title: Then those came marching up, in little bands, who are only busy with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then those came marching up, in little bands, who are only busy with their mouths. Who acts: those, little bands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 31

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Then those came marching up, in little bands, who are only busy with their mouths.

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**Who acts:** those, little bands · **What happens:** come, march up, be · **To what, where:** little bands

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those, little bands), 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:pg27200:136:31
# text = Then those came marching up, in little bands, who are only busy with their mouths.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	marching	march	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | those |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **march up** | gerund | those *not said here* |  |  | little bands |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in band=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | little bands |  |  |  |  | with bands's mouths; busy *property* | tree rules |

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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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