--- title: She sat in the pew with the rest of the pastor's household, and when… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She sat in the pew with the rest of the pastor's household, and when they had finished the hymn and looked up, they nodded and said, "It was right of you to come, Karen." Who acts: room, girl, It. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, girl, It), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:154:99 # text = She sat in the pew with the rest of the pastor's household, and when they had finished the hymn and looked up, they nodded and said, "It was right of you to come, Karen." 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pew pew NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pastor pastor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hymn hymn NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Karen Karen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | room | | | the pew | | with the rest of the pastor's household | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pew=Location | | 2 | **finish** | past · perfect | girl | the hymn | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hymn=Eventuality | | 3 | **look up** | past | room *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **nod** | past | girl | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | It | | | | | of you; Karen *obl*; right *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/100/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/)