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title: The students, even those who had board and lodging gratis, left the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The students, even those who had board and lodging gratis, left the city. Who acts: students. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 136

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The students, even those who had board and lodging gratis, left the city.

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**Who acts:** students · **What happens:** have, lodge, leave · **To what, where:** board, gratis, city

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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 (students), 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:pg27200:149:136
# text = The students, even those who had board and lodging gratis, left the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lodging	lodge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	gratis	gratis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | board |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Patient |
| 2 | **lodge** | gerund |  | gratis |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme gratis=Location |
| 3 | **leave** | past | the students  those | the city |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |

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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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