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title: Taking one thing with another, I have lived more agreeably with him… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking one thing with another, I have lived more agreeably with him than with the man whom they called the most noble and gallant of the King's subjects. Who acts: I, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 228

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Taking one thing with another, I have lived more agreeably with him than with the man whom they called the most noble and gallant of the King's subjects.

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**Who acts:** I, people · **What happens:** take, live, call · **To what, where:** one thing, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, people), 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:pg27200:149:228
# text = Taking one thing with another, I have lived more agreeably with him than with the man whom they called the most noble and gallant of the King's subjects.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	agreeably	agreeably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	noble	noble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gallant	gallant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | I *not said here* | one thing |  |  |  | with another | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with thing; than the man; agreeably *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
| 3 | **call** | past | people | the man |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme noble=Result |

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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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