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title: The clergymen stood humbly together in a corner, and looked as if th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The clergymen stood humbly together in a corner, and looked as if they were preparing for a funeral, but it was a festival--only the amusement had not yet begun. Who acts: clergymen, hall. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 101

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The clergymen stood humbly together in a corner, and looked as if they were preparing for a funeral, but it was a festival--only the amusement had not yet begun.

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**Who acts:** clergymen, hall · **What happens:** stand, look, prepare, be, not begin · **To what, where:** corner, festival, amusement

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clergymen, hall), 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:pg27200:155:101
# text = The clergymen stood humbly together in a corner, and looked as if they were preparing for a funeral, but it was a festival--only the amusement had not yet begun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clergymen	clergyman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the clergymen |  |  | a corner |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **prepare** | past · progressive | clergymen *= clergyman* |  |  |  |  | for a funeral | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for funeral=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is a** | past | hall | a festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **begin** | past · perfect · passive |  | the amusement |  |  | yet |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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