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title: The people came rushing out, and our aunt was the last in the box, "… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The people came rushing out, and our aunt was the last in the box, "on the second tier, left-hand side, for from there the scenery looks best," she used to say. " Who acts: people, aunt, scenery. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 83

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The people came rushing out, and our aunt was the last in the box, "on the second tier, left-hand side, for from there the scenery looks best," she used to say. "

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**Who acts:** people, aunt, scenery · **What happens:** come, rush out, be, look, use, say · **To what, where:** second tier, box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, aunt, scenery), 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:pg27200:139:83
# text = The people came rushing out, and our aunt was the last in the box, "on the second tier, left-hand side, for from there the scenery looks best," she used to say. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	tier	tier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	scenery	scenery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the people |  |  | the second tier and left hand side |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush out** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | our aunt |  |  | the box |  | last *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | present | the scenery |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for there=Theme |
| 5 | **use** | past | aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | aunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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