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title: They led him out of church; he told those standing round him that he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They led him out of church; he told those standing round him that he was well, and had never been ill; he, who had been so grievously afflicted, the outcast, thrown upon the world, could not remember his sufferings. Who acts: tears, Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 88

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They led him out of church; he told those standing round him that he was well, and had never been ill; he, who had been so grievously afflicted, the outcast, thrown upon the world, could not remember his sufferings.

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**Who acts:** tears, Jurgen · **What happens:** lead, tell, stand, be, not be, afflict · **To what, where:** Jurgen, church, those, world, sufferings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tears, Jurgen), 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:pg27200:162:88
# text = They led him out of church; he told those standing round him that he was well, and had never been ill; he, who had been so grievously afflicted, the outcast, thrown upon the world, could not remember his sufferings.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	grievously	grievously	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	outcast	outcast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | tears *= tear* | Jurgen |  | church |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out church=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jurgen | those |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Jurgen | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **afflict** | past · perfect · passive |  | Jurgen |  |  |  | grievously *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 7 | **throw** | participle |  |  |  | the world |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon world=Destination |
| 8 | **not** **remember** | could |  | Jurgen's sufferings |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent suffering=Theme |
| 9 | **suffer** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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