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title: At the Thing or Assembly at Viborg, the Danish nobles burn the laws… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the Thing or Assembly at Viborg, the Danish nobles burn the laws of the king. Who acts: Danish nobles. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 47

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At the Thing or Assembly at Viborg, the Danish nobles burn the laws of the king.

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**Who acts:** Danish nobles · **What happens:** burn · **To what, where:** laws, Thing

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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 (Danish nobles), 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:pg27200:190:47
# text = At the Thing or Assembly at Viborg, the Danish nobles burn the laws of the king.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Viborg	Viborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | the Danish nobles | the laws of the king |  | the Thing or Assembly at Viborg |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent law=Theme |

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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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