--- title: In the palace, the high-born gentlemen and beautiful ladies danced w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the palace, the high-born gentlemen and beautiful ladies danced with each other, and they could be heard at a great distance singing the following song:-- Who acts: born gentlemen, great distance. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (born gentlemen, great distance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:198:73 # text = In the palace, the high-born gentlemen and beautiful ladies danced with each other, and they could be heard at a great distance singing the following song:-- 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 gentlemen gentleman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 13 obl _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 amod _ _ 30 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT NFP _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **dance** | past | the born gentlemen and beautiful ladies | | | the palace | | with each | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | | 3 | **hear** | could · passive | | gentlemen *= gentleman* | | | | at a great distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a great distance *not said here* | the following song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 5 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/74/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/)