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title: But in the hall the baron's daughter flew to the place of honour at… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the hall the baron's daughter flew to the place of honour at the end of the table--she was worthy to sit there; the pastor's son had the seat next to her; the two sat there as if they were a bridal pair. Who acts: daughter, son, two, sons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 114

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But in the hall the baron's daughter flew to the place of honour at the end of the table--she was worthy to sit there; the pastor's son had the seat next to her; the two sat there as if they were a bridal pair.

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**Who acts:** daughter, son, two, sons · **What happens:** fly, be, sit, have · **To what, where:** hall, seat

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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 (daughter, son, two, sons), 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:pg27200:155:114
# text = But in the hall the baron's daughter flew to the place of honour at the end of the table--she was worthy to sit there; the pastor's son had the seat next to her; the two sat there as if they were a bridal pair.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	baron	baron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	csubj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	next	next	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nsubj	_	_
42	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
43	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	50	case	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the baron's daughter |  |  | the hall | at the end of the table | to the place of honour | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | worthy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | the pastor's son | the seat |  |  |  | next *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | past | the two |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | as a bridal pair | tree rules |

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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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