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title: He accompanied her into the hall, and the little pages offered them… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He accompanied her into the hall, and the little pages offered them gingerbread nuts and sweetmeats, but the old king was so unhappy he could eat nothing, and besides, gingerbread nuts were too hard for him. Who acts: John, little pages, old king, besides. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 70

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He accompanied her into the hall, and the little pages offered them gingerbread nuts and sweetmeats, but the old king was so unhappy he could eat nothing, and besides, gingerbread nuts were too hard for him.

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**Who acts:** John, little pages, old king, besides · **What happens:** accompany, offer, be, eat · **To what, where:** princess, hall, gingerbread nuts, people, nothing

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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 (John, little pages, old king, besides), 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:pg27200:197:70
# text = He accompanied her into the hall, and the little pages offered them gingerbread nuts and sweetmeats, but the old king was so unhappy he could eat nothing, and besides, gingerbread nuts were too hard for him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past | John | princess |  | the hall |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination |
| 2 | **offer** | past | the little pages | gingerbread nuts and sweetmeats | people |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal nut=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the old king |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | could | John | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | besides and gingerbread nuts |  |  |  |  | for John; hard *property* | 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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