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title: Persons seeking interviews and engagements, all so plainly and natur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Persons seeking interviews and engagements, all so plainly and naturally stated. Who acts: Persons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 15

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Persons seeking interviews and engagements, all so plainly and naturally stated.

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**Who acts:** Persons · **What happens:** seek, state · **To what, where:** interviews, Persons

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persons), 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:pg27200:16:15
# text = Persons seeking interviews and engagements, all so plainly and naturally stated.
1	Persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	interviews	interview	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	engagements	engagement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | gerund | Persons *not said here* | interviews and engagements |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interview=Theme |
| 2 | **state** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | Persons |  |  |  | naturally, plainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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