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title: The courtiers who came in afterwards looked noble and grand; but any… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The courtiers who came in afterwards looked noble and grand; but any one with common sense could see what they really were, only broomsticks, with cabbages for heads. Who acts: courtiers, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 112

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The courtiers who came in afterwards looked noble and grand; but any one with common sense could see what they really were, only broomsticks, with cabbages for heads.

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**Who acts:** courtiers, one · **What happens:** come in, look, see, be · **To what, where:** courtiers, broomsticks

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, one), 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:pg27200:197:112
# text = The courtiers who came in afterwards looked noble and grand; but any one with common sense could see what they really were, only broomsticks, with cabbages for heads.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	broomsticks	broomstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | the courtiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | the courtiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afterwards, noble *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | could | any one | the courtiers |  |  |  | with common sense | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | courtiers *= courtier* | broomsticks and cabbages for heads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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