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title: Two young Roman girls, who sat as models to the artists, took part i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two young Roman girls, who sat as models to the artists, took part in the dance and in the festivity. Who acts: Two young Roman girls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 124

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Two young Roman girls, who sat as models to the artists, took part in the dance and in the festivity.

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**Who acts:** Two young Roman girls · **What happens:** sit, take · **To what, where:** part, dance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two young Roman girls), 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:pg27200:151:124
# text = Two young Roman girls, who sat as models to the artists, took part in the dance and in the festivity.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	models	model	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	festivity	festivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Two young Roman girls |  |  |  |  | as models; to the artists | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Two young Roman girls *not said here* | part |  | the dance and the festivity |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in dance=Location |

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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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