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title: Early the next morning the king and queen accompanied the lady and a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Early the next morning the king and queen accompanied the lady and all the officers of the household, to see where the princess had been. Who acts: king, princess. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 84

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Early the next morning the king and queen accompanied the lady and all the officers of the household, to see where the princess had been.

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**Who acts:** king, princess · **What happens:** accompany, see, be · **To what, where:** lady

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, princess), 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:pg27200:193:84
# text = Early the next morning the king and queen accompanied the lady and all the officers of the household, to see where the princess had been.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past | the king and queen | the lady and all officers of the household |  |  | morning |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the king and queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** | past · perfect | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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