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title: All this pomp and luxury seemed to weary him; but soon he felt relie… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All this pomp and luxury seemed to weary him; but soon he felt relieved, for the princely old master of the house received him most graciously, almost heartily; and when he took his leave he was requested to step into the Signora's apartment, for she, too, wished to see him. Who acts: pomp, Providen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 79

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All this pomp and luxury seemed to weary him; but soon he felt relieved, for the princely old master of the house received him most graciously, almost heartily; and when he took his leave he was requested to step into the Signora's apartment, for she, too, wished to see him.

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**Who acts:** pomp, Providence, princely old master · **What happens:** seem, weary, feel, receive, take, be · **To what, where:** Providence, leave, apartment, marble

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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 (pomp, Providence, princely old master), 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:pg27200:151:79
# text = All this pomp and luxury seemed to weary him; but soon he felt relieved, for the princely old master of the house received him most graciously, almost heartily; and when he took his leave he was requested to step into the Signora's apartment, for she, too, wished to see him.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	weary	weary	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	relieved	relieved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	heartily	heartily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	parataxis	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Signora	Signora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
53	too	too	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
55	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	parataxis	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | all pomp and luxury |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **weary** | to-infinitive | all pomp and luxury *not said here* | Providence |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Providence |  |  |  |  | for the princely old master; relieved, soon *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **receive** | past | the princely old master *not said here* | Providence |  |  |  | of the house; graciously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | Providence | Providence's leave |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | Providence |  |  |  |  | request *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **step** | to-infinitive | Providence *not said here* |  |  | the Signora's apartment |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into apartment=Destination |
| 8 | **wish** | participle · passive |  | marble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Providence |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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