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title: And I will own, that when people saw my father perched up in front o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will own, that when people saw my father perched up in front of the omnibus of death, dressed in his long, wide, black cloak, and his black-edged, three-cornered hat on his head, and then glanced at his round, jocund face, round as the sun, they could not think much of sorrow or the grave. Who
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 9

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And I will own, that when people saw my father perched up in front of the omnibus of death, dressed in his long, wide, black cloak, and his black-edged, three-cornered hat on his head, and then glanced at his round, jocund face, round as the sun, they could not think much of sorrow or the grave.

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**Who acts:** I, people, father · **What happens:** own, see, perch up, dress, edge, corner · **To what, where:** edged cornered hat, father, front, long wide black cloak, much

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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 (I, people, father), 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:pg27200:16:9
# text = And I will own, that when people saw my father perched up in front of the omnibus of death, dressed in his long, wide, black cloak, and his black-edged, three-cornered hat on his head, and then glanced at his round, jocund face, round as the sun, they could not think much of sorrow or the grave.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
34	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	cornered	corner	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
51	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
53	jocund	jocund	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
62	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
63	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
64	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
65	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	obj	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	_
68	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | future | I | truth's edged cornered hat on truth's head |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **see** | past | people | my father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perch up** | participle | my father *not said here* |  |  | front of the omnibus of death |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 4 | **dress** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  | truth's long wide black cloak |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **corner** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **glance** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  | then | at truth's round jocund face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | people | much of sorrow or the grave |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=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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