--- title: And when they stood before the throne on which the princess sat, the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And when they stood before the throne on which the princess sat, they could do nothing but repeat the last words she had said; and she had no particular wish to hear her own words over again. Who acts: footmen, princess. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The P --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/33/) [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/) / [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/) / 33 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 33 And when they stood before the throne on which the princess sat, they could do nothing but repeat the last words she had said; and she had no particular wish to hear her own words over again. **Who acts:** footmen, princess · **What happens:** stand, sit, do, repeat, say, have · **To what, where:** throne, nothing, last words, particular wish, own words · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (footmen, princess), 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:pg27200:173:33 # text = And when they stood before the throne on which the princess sat, they could do nothing but repeat the last words she had said; and she had no particular wish to hear her own words over again. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 17 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 obj _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 repeat repeat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 31 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 over over ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | footmen *= footman* | | | the throne | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before throne=Location | | 2 | **sit** | past | the princess | | | the throne | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | | 3 | **do** | could | footmen *= footman* | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 4 | **repeat** | present | footmen *= footman* *not said here* | the last words | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | princess | the last words *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 6 | **have** | past | princess | no particular wish | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | | 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | princess's own words | | | again | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 8 | **word** | | princess | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/34/) - ↑ back to [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/)