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title: So they all sat down to feast on the roasted stag; and as the prince… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So they all sat down to feast on the roasted stag; and as the prince sat by the side of the East Wind, they soon became good friends. Who acts: Winds, prince. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 121

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So they all sat down to feast on the roasted stag; and as the prince sat by the side of the East Wind, they soon became good friends.

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**Who acts:** Winds, prince · **What happens:** sit down, feast, roast, sit, become · **To what, where:** good friends

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winds, prince), 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:pg27200:140:121
# text = So they all sat down to feast on the roasted stag; and as the prince sat by the side of the East Wind, they soon became good friends.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | Winds *= wind* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feast** | to-infinitive | Winds *= wind* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the roasted stag | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on stag=Patient |
| 3 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | by the side of the East Wind | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 5 | **become** | past | Winds *= wind* | good friends |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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