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title: At dinner, George sat at the right hand of Emily, whom the General h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At dinner, George sat at the right hand of Emily, whom the General had taken down, while the Count led in the General's lady. Who acts: George, General, Count. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 85

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At dinner, George sat at the right hand of Emily, whom the General had taken down, while the Count led in the General's lady.

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**Who acts:** George, General, Count · **What happens:** sit, take down, lead · **To what, where:** dinner, right hand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, General, Count), 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:pg27200:147:85
# text = At dinner, George sat at the right hand of Emily, whom the General had taken down, while the Count led in the General's lady.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | George |  |  | dinner |  | at the right hand of Emily | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at dinner=Location |
| 2 | **take down** | past · perfect | the General | the right hand of Emily |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the Count |  |  |  |  | in the General's lady | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in lady=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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