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title: When he came to a party, he looked somehow as if he were riding into… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to a party, he looked somehow as if he were riding into the room upon his high horse; and he had orders, too, such a number that no one would have believed it; but that was not his fault. Who acts: General, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 42

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When he came to a party, he looked somehow as if he were riding into the room upon his high horse; and he had orders, too, such a number that no one would have believed it; but that was not his fault.

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**Who acts:** General, that · **What happens:** come, look, ride, have, believe, not be · **To what, where:** party, room, orders, number, fault

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, that), 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:pg27200:146:42
# text = When he came to a party, he looked somehow as if he were riding into the room upon his high horse; and he had orders, too, such a number that no one would have believed it; but that was not his fault.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | General |  |  | a party |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | General |  |  |  |  | somehow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ride** | past · progressive | General |  |  | the room |  | upon General's high horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into room=Trajectory |
| 4 | **have** | past | General | orders |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 5 | **believe** | would · perfect · passive |  | such number |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | past | that | General's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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