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title: He sat by her side on the open balcony, smoking a cigarette in the c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He sat by her side on the open balcony, smoking a cigarette in the cool air, which was loaded with the sweet scent of carnations and orange blossoms. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 31

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He sat by her side on the open balcony, smoking a cigarette in the cool air, which was loaded with the sweet scent of carnations and orange blossoms.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** sit, smoke, load, scent · **To what, where:** open balcony, cigarette, cool air, carnations

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg27200:158:31
# text = He sat by her side on the open balcony, smoking a cigarette in the cool air, which was loaded with the sweet scent of carnations and orange blossoms.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	carnations	carnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | husband |  |  | the open balcony |  | by wife's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 2 | **smoke** | gerund | husband *not said here* | a cigarette |  | the cool air |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cigarette=Source |
| 3 | **load** | past · passive |  | the cool air |  |  |  | with the sweet scent of carnations and orange blossoms | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with scent=Theme |
| 4 | **scent** |  |  | carnations and orange blossoms |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition transitive»: 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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