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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 54

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Many presents arrived, and among them came a saddle of exquisite workmanship, a comfortable and costly saddle--one of the Princes had just such another.

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**Who acts:** Many presents, Princes · **What happens:** arrive, come, have · **To what, where:** saddle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many presents, Princes), 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:pg27200:148:54
# text = Many presents arrived, and among them came a saddle of exquisite workmanship, a comfortable and costly saddle--one of the Princes had just such another.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Many presents |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Many presents *not said here* | a saddle of exquisite workmanship and a comfortable saddle |  |  |  | among presents *= present* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saddle=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Princes |  |  |  |  | such another | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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