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title: The common people were treated harshly; and it was just after the da… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The common people were treated harshly; and it was just after the days when farms were converted into knights' estates, when coachmen and servants were often made magistrates, and had power to sentence a poor man, for a small offence, to lose his property and to corporeal punishment. Who acts: execu
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 40

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The common people were treated harshly; and it was just after the days when farms were converted into knights' estates, when coachmen and servants were often made magistrates, and had power to sentence a poor man, for a small offence, to lose his property and to corporeal punishment.

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**Who acts:** execution · **What happens:** treat, be, convert, make, have, lose · **To what, where:** common people, farms, estates, coachmen, power, property

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (execution), 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:pg27200:161:40
# text = The common people were treated harshly; and it was just after the days when farms were converted into knights' estates, when coachmen and servants were often made magistrates, and had power to sentence a poor man, for a small offence, to lose his property and to corporeal punishment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	converted	convert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	estates	estate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
25	coachmen	coachman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
31	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
35	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	offence	offence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	corporeal	corporeal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past · passive |  | the common people |  |  |  | harshly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | execution |  |  |  | after the days |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **convert** | past · passive |  | farms |  |  |  | into knights's estates *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into estate=Result |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | coachmen and servants |  |  |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary magistrate=Product |
| 5 | **have** | past |  | power and sentence |  |  |  | for a small offence | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** | to-infinitive |  | man's property and corporeal punishment |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Eventuality |

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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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