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title: He himself is present; he has risen from the spectator's bench, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He himself is present; he has risen from the spectator's bench, and has stepped forward, that the laughing Athenians may well appreciate the likeness between himself and the caricature on the stage. Who acts: genius, laughing Athenians. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 10

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He himself is present; he has risen from the spectator's bench, and has stepped forward, that the laughing Athenians may well appreciate the likeness between himself and the caricature on the stage.

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**Who acts:** genius, laughing Athenians · **What happens:** be, rise, step forward, laugh, appreciate · **To what, where:** genius, bench, likeness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, laughing Athenians), 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:pg27200:190:10
# text = He himself is present; he has risen from the spectator's bench, and has stepped forward, that the laughing Athenians may well appreciate the likeness between himself and the caricature on the stage.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spectator	spectator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	Athenians	Athenian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	appreciate	appreciate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	caricature	caricature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | genius |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | present · perfect · passive |  | genius |  | the spectator's bench |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent from bench=Initial\_State |
| 3 | **step forward** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **appreciate** | may | the laughing Athenians | the likeness |  |  |  | between genius; well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer likeness=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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