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title: In his eagerness, he came so near the edge of the purse that he slip… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In his eagerness, he came so near the edge of the purse that he slipped out into the pocket of the trousers; and when, in the evening, the purse was taken out, the shilling was left behind in the corner to which it had fallen. Who acts: man, purse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 14

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In his eagerness, he came so near the edge of the purse that he slipped out into the pocket of the trousers; and when, in the evening, the purse was taken out, the shilling was left behind in the corner to which it had fallen.

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**Who acts:** man, purse · **What happens:** come, slip out, take out, leave behind, fall · **To what, where:** eagerness, pocket, purse, shilling, corner

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, purse), 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:pg27200:167:14
# text = In his eagerness, he came so near the edge of the purse that he slipped out into the pocket of the trousers; and when, in the evening, the purse was taken out, the shilling was left behind in the corner to which it had fallen.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
42	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	obl	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | man |  |  | man's eagerness |  | near the edge of the purse | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eagerness=Location |
| 2 | **slip out** | past | man |  |  | the pocket of the trousers |  | out *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **take out** | past · passive |  | the purse |  |  | evening |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  | the shilling |  | the corner |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in corner=Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past · perfect | purse |  |  |  |  | to the corner | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme |

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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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