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title: The princess and the shadow stepped out on the balcony to show thems… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess and the shadow stepped out on the balcony to show themselves, and to receive one cheer more. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 247

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The princess and the shadow stepped out on the balcony to show themselves, and to receive one cheer more.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** step out, show, receive · **To what, where:** balcony, princess, one cheer

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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 (princess), 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:pg27200:165:247
# text = The princess and the shadow stepped out on the balcony to show themselves, and to receive one cheer more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step out** | past | the princess and the shadow |  |  | the balcony |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on balcony=Trajectory |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | the princess and the shadow *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the princess and the shadow *not said here* | one cheer |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cheer=Theme more=Location |

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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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