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title: My mother and the nobleman were alone in the room, when he suddenly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: My mother and the nobleman were alone in the room, when he suddenly noticed an old woman on crutches come limping into the courtyard; she came every Sunday to carry a gift away with her. Who acts: mother, child, crutches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 93

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My mother and the nobleman were alone in the room, when he suddenly noticed an old woman on crutches come limping into the courtyard; she came every Sunday to carry a gift away with her.

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**Who acts:** mother, child, crutches · **What happens:** be, notice, come, limp, carry away · **To what, where:** room, old woman, courtyard, gift

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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 (mother, child, crutches), 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:pg27200:155:93
# text = My mother and the nobleman were alone in the room, when he suddenly noticed an old woman on crutches come limping into the courtyard; she came every Sunday to carry a gift away with her.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	crutches	crutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	limping	limp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | My mother and the nobleman |  |  | the room |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **notice** | past | child | a old woman |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | present | crutches |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **limp** | gerund | crutches *not said here* |  |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Destination |
| 5 | **come** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **carry away** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | a gift |  |  |  | with mother; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |

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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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