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title: Then she assembled all her court ladies together at the beat of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she assembled all her court ladies together at the beat of the drum, and when they heard of her intentions they were very much pleased. ' Who acts: princess, ladies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 23

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Then she assembled all her court ladies together at the beat of the drum, and when they heard of her intentions they were very much pleased. '

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**Who acts:** princess, ladies · **What happens:** assemble, hear, be, intend · **To what, where:** court ladies, beat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, ladies), 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:pg27200:173:23
# text = Then she assembled all her court ladies together at the beat of the drum, and when they heard of her intentions they were very much pleased. '
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | princess | princess's court ladies |  | the beat of the drum | then | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | of princess's intentions | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of intention=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **intend** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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