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title: The men-servants and maids looked over his stock of articles and bar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The men-servants and maids looked over his stock of articles and bargained with him; loud crying and screaming were heard from the master's table above: they called it singing--indeed, they did their best. Who acts: men, servants, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 17

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The men-servants and maids looked over his stock of articles and bargained with him; loud crying and screaming were heard from the master's table above: they called it singing--indeed, they did their best.

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**Who acts:** men, servants, child · **What happens:** look, bargain, cry, scream, hear, call · **To what, where:** loud, table, best, articles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (men, servants, child), 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:pg27200:155:17
# text = The men-servants and maids looked over his stock of articles and bargained with him; loud crying and screaming were heard from the master's table above: they called it singing--indeed, they did their best.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
19	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the men |  |  |  |  | over child's stock of articles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over stock=Theme |
| 2 | **bargain** | participle | the men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with child | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hear** | past · passive |  | loud |  | the master's table |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from table=Source |
| 6 | **call** | past | servants *= servant* | table |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | servants *= servant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **do** | past | servants *= servant* | servants's best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 9 | **stock** |  | child | articles |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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