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title: The sentries presented arms to him, one of the most beautiful girls… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sentries presented arms to him, one of the most beautiful girls presented arms to him, and became the General's lady, and in time they had a pretty, charming child, that seemed as if it had dropped from heaven, it was so pretty; and the porter's son danced before it in the courtyard, as soon as 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 51

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The sentries presented arms to him, one of the most beautiful girls presented arms to him, and became the General's lady, and in time they had a pretty, charming child, that seemed as if it had dropped from heaven, it was so pretty; and the porter's son danced before it in the courtyard, as soon as it could understand it, and gave her all his colored pictures, and little Emily looked at them, and was pleased, and tore them to pieces.

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**Who acts:** sentries, one, child, son, little Emily · **What happens:** present, become, have, charm, seem, drop · **To what, where:** arms, war, lady, pretty, child, heaven

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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 (sentries, one, child, son), 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:pg27200:146:51
# text = The sentries presented arms to him, one of the most beautiful girls presented arms to him, and became the General's lady, and in time they had a pretty, charming child, that seemed as if it had dropped from heaven, it was so pretty; and the porter's son danced before it in the courtyard, as soon as it could understand it, and gave her all his colored pictures, and little Emily looked at them, and was pleased, and tore them to pieces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sentries	sentry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pretty	pretty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
35	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	xcomp	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	's	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
58	before	before	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	as	as	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	57	advmod	_	_
66	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
67	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
68	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
69	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	advcl	_	_
70	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
72	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
73	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	_
74	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	iobj	_	_
75	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	78	det:predet	_	_
76	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	78	nmod:poss	_	_
77	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	78	amod	_	_
78	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	73	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	83	punct	_	_
80	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	83	cc	_	_
81	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	82	amod	_	_
82	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	83	nsubj	_	_
83	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	_
84	at	at	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
85	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	83	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	89	punct	_	_
87	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	89	cc	_	_
88	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	89	cop	_	_
89	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	83	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	92	punct	_	_
91	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	92	cc	_	_
92	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	_
93	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	92	obj	_	_
94	to	to	ADP	IN	_	95	case	_	_
95	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	92	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | the sentries | arms | war |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **present** | past | one of the beautiful girls | arms | war |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **become** | past | the sentries *not said here* | the General's lady |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | sentries *= sentry* | a pretty |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretty=Patient |
| 5 | **charm** | gerund | sentries *= sentry* *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
| 6 | **seem** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **drop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | child |  | heaven |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from heaven=Destination |
| 8 | **is** | past | child |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **dance** | past | the porter's son |  |  | the courtyard | before child | soon *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Location |
| 10 | **understand** | could | child | pretty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 11 | **give** | past | the porter's son *not said here* | war's colored pictures | lady |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient picture=Theme |
| 12 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **look** | past | little Emily |  |  |  |  | at sentries *= sentry* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 14 | **is** | past | little Emily *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 15 | **tore** | past | the porter's son *not said here* | sentries *= sentry* |  |  |  | to pieces | 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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