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title: Their number continued to increase more and more; and by the time Ge… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Their number continued to increase more and more; and by the time Gerda had finished her prayers, a whole legion stood round her. Who acts: number, whole legion, Gerda. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 41

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Their number continued to increase more and more; and by the time Gerda had finished her prayers, a whole legion stood round her.

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**Who acts:** number, whole legion, Gerda · **What happens:** continue, increase, finish, stand, pray · **To what, where:** Gerda

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, whole legion, Gerda), 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:pg27200:175:41
# text = Their number continued to increase more and more; and by the time Gerda had finished her prayers, a whole legion stood round her.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	legion	legion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle | shapes's number |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **increase** | to-infinitive | shapes's number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive |  | Gerda |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | a whole legion |  |  |  |  | round Gerda | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pray** |  | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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