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title: The scenes are always arranged that they look best from the King's s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The scenes are always arranged that they look best from the King's side." Who acts: scenes. 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 84

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The scenes are always arranged that they look best from the King's side."

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**Who acts:** scenes · **What happens:** arrange, look · **To what, where:** scenes

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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 (scenes), 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:pg27200:139:84
# text = The scenes are always arranged that they look best from the King's side."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | present · passive |  | the scenes |  |  |  | always *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **look** | present | scenes *= scene* |  |  |  |  | from the King's side; well *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from side=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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