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title: Right in front, in the very best place, sat a stout butcher, with a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Right in front, in the very best place, sat a stout butcher, with a great bull-dog by his side who seemed very much inclined to bite. Who acts: side. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 106

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Right in front, in the very best place, sat a stout butcher, with a great bull-dog by his side who seemed very much inclined to bite.

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**Who acts:** side · **What happens:** sit, seem, bite · **To what, where:** stout butcher, front

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (side), 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:pg27200:196:106
# text = Right in front, in the very best place, sat a stout butcher, with a great bull-dog by his side who seemed very much inclined to bite.
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | a stout butcher |  | front and the best place |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent butcher=Theme in front=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | dog's side |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bite** | to-infinitive | dog's side *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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