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title: There was great company at the manor-house--some very noble people f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was great company at the manor-house--some very noble people from the capital; young pretty girls, and among them a young lady who came from a long distance. Who acts: great company, young lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 6

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There was great company at the manor-house--some very noble people from the capital; young pretty girls, and among them a young lady who came from a long distance.

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**Who acts:** great company, young lady · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** manor house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great company, young lady), 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:pg27200:189:6
# text = There was great company at the manor-house--some very noble people from the capital; young pretty girls, and among them a young lady who came from a long distance.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | great company |  |  | the manor house  some noble people from the capital; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | a young lady |  |  |  |  | from a long distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial\_Location |

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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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