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title: They arrived at length at the baths, where there were many strangers… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They arrived at length at the baths, where there were many strangers, and among them a beautiful princess, whose real disease consisted in being too sharp-sighted, which made every one very uneasy. Who acts: Sorrow, real disease. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 186

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They arrived at length at the baths, where there were many strangers, and among them a beautiful princess, whose real disease consisted in being too sharp-sighted, which made every one very uneasy.

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**Who acts:** Sorrow, real disease · **What happens:** arrive, be, consist, sight, make · **To what, where:** length, many strangers, real disease, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, real disease), 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:pg27200:165:186
# text = They arrived at length at the baths, where there were many strangers, and among them a beautiful princess, whose real disease consisted in being too sharp-sighted, which made every one very uneasy.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	consisted	consist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	sighted	sight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Sorrow |  |  | length |  | at the baths | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | many strangers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consist** | participle |  | a beautiful princess and a beautiful princess and real disease's real disease's real disease *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sight** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **make** | past | a beautiful princess and a beautiful princess's real disease's real disease | every one |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |

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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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