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title: Councillors and ambassadors walked about with bare feet, carrying go… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Councillors and ambassadors walked about with bare feet, carrying golden vessels; it was enough to make any one feel serious. Who acts: Councillors, light, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 51

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Councillors and ambassadors walked about with bare feet, carrying golden vessels; it was enough to make any one feel serious.

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**Who acts:** Councillors, light, one · **What happens:** walk, carry, be, make, feel · **To what, where:** golden vessels, one

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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 (Councillors, light, one), 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:pg27200:173:51
# text = Councillors and ambassadors walked about with bare feet, carrying golden vessels; it was enough to make any one feel serious.
1	Councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Councillors and ambassadors |  |  |  |  | with bare feet; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | Councillors and ambassadors *not said here* | golden vessels |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | light |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | light *not said here* | any one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | any one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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