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title: With the collector were several men who seemed to have a great deal… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: With the collector were several men who seemed to have a great deal to do, so I fell unnoticed into a chest, among several other coins. Who acts: several men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 65

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With the collector were several men who seemed to have a great deal to do, so I fell unnoticed into a chest, among several other coins.

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**Who acts:** several men · **What happens:** be, seem, have, do, unnotic · **To what, where:** several men, great deal, I, chest

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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 (several men), 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:pg27200:167:65
# text = With the collector were several men who seemed to have a great deal to do, so I fell unnoticed into a chest, among several other coins.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	unnoticed	unnotic	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | several men |  |  |  | with the collector | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | several men |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | several men *not said here* | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | several men *not said here* | a great deal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **unnotic** | past · passive |  | I |  | a chest |  | among several other coins | tree rules |

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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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