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title: Grand people who came too late, when the performance had begun, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Grand people who came too late, when the performance had begun, and young people, who could not always watch the time, were tied up outside, and had list slippers put on their feet, with which they were allowed to go in before the beginning of the next act, and they had muzzles too. Who acts: Grand 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 65

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Grand people who came too late, when the performance had begun, and young people, who could not always watch the time, were tied up outside, and had list slippers put on their feet, with which they were allowed to go in before the beginning of the next act, and they had muzzles too.

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**Who acts:** Grand people, performance, young people, list slippers, performances · **What happens:** come, begin, not watch, tie up, have, put · **To what, where:** feet, performances, beginning, muzzles, next act

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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 (Grand people, performance, young people, list slippers), 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:pg27200:139:65
# text = Grand people who came too late, when the performance had begun, and young people, who could not always watch the time, were tied up outside, and had list slippers put on their feet, with which they were allowed to go in before the beginning of the next act, and they had muzzles too.
1	Grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obl	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	in	in	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	before	before	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
59	muzzles	muzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obj	_	_
60	too	too	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Grand people |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past · perfect | the performance |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **watch** | could | young people |  |  |  | time | always *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tie up** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 5 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | present | list slippers |  |  | performances's feet |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on foot=Destination |
| 7 | **allow** | past · passive |  | performances *= performance* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **go in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | performances *= performance* *not said here* |  |  |  | before the beginning of the next act |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before beginning=Location |
| 9 | **have** | past | performances *= performance* | muzzles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muzzle=Patient |
| 10 | **begin** |  |  | the next act |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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