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title: The same evening, upon going to bed, the pastor noticed his wife sit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The same evening, upon going to bed, the pastor noticed his wife sitting there quiet and pensive. Who acts: same evening, pastor, wife. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 15

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The same evening, upon going to bed, the pastor noticed his wife sitting there quiet and pensive.

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**Who acts:** same evening, pastor, wife · **What happens:** go, notice, sit · **To what, where:** bed, wife

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same evening, pastor, wife), 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:pg27200:2:15
# text = The same evening, upon going to bed, the pastor noticed his wife sitting there quiet and pensive.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pensive	pensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | the same evening *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **notice** | past | the pastor | pastor's wife |  |  | evening |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | pastor's wife *not said here* |  |  | there |  | quiet *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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