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title: He partook of the bread and wine, and it so happened that he knelt b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He partook of the bread and wine, and it so happened that he knelt by the side of Miss Clara; but his thoughts were so fixed upon heaven and the Holy Sacrament that he did not notice his neighbour until he rose from his knees, and then he saw tears rolling down her cheeks. Who acts: Communion, it, t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 7

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He partook of the bread and wine, and it so happened that he knelt by the side of Miss Clara; but his thoughts were so fixed upon heaven and the Holy Sacrament that he did not notice his neighbour until he rose from his knees, and then he saw tears rolling down her cheeks.

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**Who acts:** Communion, it, tears · **What happens:** partake, happen, kneel, fix, not notice, rise · **To what, where:** thoughts, neighbour, knees, tears, cheeks

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Communion, it, tears), 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:pg27200:162:7
# text = He partook of the bread and wine, and it so happened that he knelt by the side of Miss Clara; but his thoughts were so fixed upon heaven and the Holy Sacrament that he did not notice his neighbour until he rose from his knees, and then he saw tears rolling down her cheeks.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	partook	partake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Clara	Clara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Sacrament	sacrament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
53	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
54	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
55	down	down	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **partake** | past | Communion |  |  |  |  | of the bread and wine | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kneel** | past | Communion |  |  |  |  | by the side of Miss | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 4 | **fix** | past · passive |  | Communion's thoughts |  |  |  | upon heaven and the Holy Sacrament | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | Communion | Communion's neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus |
| 6 | **rise** | past | Communion |  |  | Communion's knees |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from knee=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **see** | past | Communion | tears |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus |
| 8 | **roll down** | gerund | tears *not said here* | Miss's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Agent |
| 9 | **think** |  | Communion |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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