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title: When he had come down into the courtyard he walked quite softly, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had come down into the courtyard he walked quite softly, and the ladies were so busily engaged in counting the kisses, that all should be fair, that they did not notice the emperor. Who acts: remainder, all, ladies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 82

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When he had come down into the courtyard he walked quite softly, and the ladies were so busily engaged in counting the kisses, that all should be fair, that they did not notice the emperor.

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**Who acts:** remainder, all, ladies · **What happens:** come down, walk, engage, count, be, not notice · **To what, where:** courtyard, ladies, kisses, emperor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder, all, 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:pg27200:188:82
# text = When he had come down into the courtyard he walked quite softly, and the ladies were so busily engaged in counting the kisses, that all should be fair, that they did not notice the emperor.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past · perfect | remainder |  |  | the courtyard |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **walk** | past | remainder | the courtyard *not said here* |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Trajectory |
| 3 | **engage** | past · passive |  | the ladies |  |  |  | busily *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **count** | gerund |  | the kisses |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | should | all |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | ladies *= lady* | the emperor |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer emperor=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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