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title: The poor bumpkin who sat on a low stool in the corner, and was jeere… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor bumpkin who sat on a low stool in the corner, and was jeered at and flouted, will perhaps have his worn-out stool given him as a provision; and the stool may become a litter in the land of eternity, and rise up then as a throne, gleaming like gold and blooming as an arbor. Who acts: poor bu
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 44

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The poor bumpkin who sat on a low stool in the corner, and was jeered at and flouted, will perhaps have his worn-out stool given him as a provision; and the stool may become a litter in the land of eternity, and rise up then as a throne, gleaming like gold and blooming as an arbor.

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**Who acts:** poor bumpkin, worn out stool, stool · **What happens:** sit, jeer, flout, have, wear, give · **To what, where:** low stool, worn out stool, bumpkin, litter

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor bumpkin, worn out stool, stool), 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:pg27200:138:44
# text = The poor bumpkin who sat on a low stool in the corner, and was jeered at and flouted, will perhaps have his worn-out stool given him as a provision; and the stool may become a litter in the land of eternity, and rise up then as a throne, gleaming like gold and blooming as an arbor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bumpkin	bumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flouted	flout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
25	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	xcomp	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
57	like	like	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	conj	_	_
61	as	as	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	arbor	arbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the poor bumpkin |  |  | a low stool |  | in the corner | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location |
| 2 | **jeer** | past · passive | the poor bumpkin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **flout** | participle | the poor bumpkin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | future | the poor bumpkin | bumpkin's worn out stool |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Patient |
| 5 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | participle | bumpkin's worn out stool *not said here* | bumpkin |  |  |  | as a provision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **become** | may | the stool | a litter in the land of eternity |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **rise up** | infinitive | the stool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a throne | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **gleam** | gerund | the stool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **bloom** | gerund | the stool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a arbor | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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