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title: As the people went in, John followed them; he heard God's word, join… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As the people went in, John followed them; he heard God's word, joined in singing the psalms, and listened to the preacher. Who acts: people, John, God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 44

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As the people went in, John followed them; he heard God's word, joined in singing the psalms, and listened to the preacher.

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**Who acts:** people, John, God · **What happens:** go in, follow, hear, join, sing, listen · **To what, where:** people, word, psalms

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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 (people, John, God), 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:pg27200:196:44
# text = As the people went in, John followed them; he heard God's word, joined in singing the psalms, and listened to the preacher.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	psalms	psalm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	preacher	preacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | John | people |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | John | God's word |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 4 | **join** | participle |  | God's word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | the psalms |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme |
| 6 | **listen** | past | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the preacher | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to preacher=Theme |
| 7 | **word** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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