--- title: All who went to the demon's school--for he kept a school--talked eve… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: All who went to the demon's school--for he kept a school--talked everywhere of the wonders they had seen, and declared that people could now, for the first time, see what the world and mankind were really like. Who acts: demon, wonders, world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Story the First. Which describes a loo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/) / 7 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 7 All who went to the demon's school--for he kept a school--talked everywhere of the wonders they had seen, and declared that people could now, for the first time, see what the world and mankind were really like. **Who acts:** demon, wonders, world · **What happens:** go, keep, talk, see, declare, like · **To what, where:** school, wonders · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, wonders, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:170:7 # text = All who went to the demon's school--for he kept a school--talked everywhere of the wonders they had seen, and declared that people could now, for the first time, see what the world and mankind were really like. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 16 advmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wonders wonder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 45 obj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 mankind mankind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 really really ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | | | | the demon's school | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **keep** | past | demon | a school | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | | 3 | **talk** | past | | | | | | of the wonders; everywhere *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | past · perfect | wonders *= wonder* | the wonders *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus | | 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | | | | | time | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **like** | past | the world and mankind | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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