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title: One sat pretty much in the dark up there, and most people took their… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One sat pretty much in the dark up there, and most people took their supper up with them. Who acts: One, most people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 44

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One sat pretty much in the dark up there, and most people took their supper up with them.

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**Who acts:** One, most people · **What happens:** sit, take up · **To what, where:** dark, supper

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, most people), 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:pg27200:139:44
# text = One sat pretty much in the dark up there, and most people took their supper up with them.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | One |  |  | the dark; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location |
| 2 | **take up** | past | most people | people's supper |  |  |  | with flies *= fly* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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