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title: So she walked up to the learned man, who stood in the doorway, and s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So she walked up to the learned man, who stood in the doorway, and spoke to him of the sun, and the moon, of the green forests, and of people near home and far off; and the learned man conversed with her pleasantly and sensibly. Who acts: nail, learned man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 219

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So she walked up to the learned man, who stood in the doorway, and spoke to him of the sun, and the moon, of the green forests, and of people near home and far off; and the learned man conversed with her pleasantly and sensibly.

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**Who acts:** nail, learned man · **What happens:** walk up, learn, stand, speak, converse · **To what, where:** moon, doorway, man, learned man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nail, learned man), 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:pg27200:165:219
# text = So she walked up to the learned man, who stood in the doorway, and spoke to him of the sun, and the moon, of the green forests, and of people near home and far off; and the learned man conversed with her pleasantly and sensibly.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
36	near	near	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
40	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
46	conversed	converse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	sensibly	sensibly	ADV	RB	_	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk up** | past | nail | the moon |  |  |  | to the learned man *result*; of the green forests; the learned man *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result |
| 2 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the learned man |  |  | the doorway |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | nail *not said here* |  | man |  |  | of the sun | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **converse** *speech: other* | participle |  | the learned man *not said here* |  |  |  | with nail; pleasantly *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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