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title: The Queen of Denmark went away to her German home, the King quitted… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen of Denmark went away to her German home, the King quitted the capital, and everybody who could do so hurried away. Who acts: Queen, King. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 135

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The Queen of Denmark went away to her German home, the King quitted the capital, and everybody who could do so hurried away.

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**Who acts:** Queen, King · **What happens:** go away, quitt, do, hurry away · **To what, where:** German home, capital, everybody

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, King), 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:pg27200:149:135
# text = The Queen of Denmark went away to her German home, the King quitted the capital, and everybody who could do so hurried away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	quitted	quitt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | the Queen of Denmark |  |  | Queen's German home |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **quitt** | past | the King | the capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hurry away** | participle · passive |  | everybody |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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