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title: They quickly went away and came before the beds of the criminals; th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They quickly went away and came before the beds of the criminals; these unfortunate people slept side by side, in long rows. Who acts: dreams, unfortunate people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 61

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They quickly went away and came before the beds of the criminals; these unfortunate people slept side by side, in long rows.

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**Who acts:** dreams, unfortunate people · **What happens:** go away, come, sleep · **To what, where:** beds, side, long rows

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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 (dreams, unfortunate people), 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:pg27200:2:61
# text = They quickly went away and came before the beds of the criminals; these unfortunate people slept side by side, in long rows.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	criminals	criminal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | dreams *= dream* |  |  |  |  | away, quickly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | dreams *= dream* *not said here* |  |  | the beds of the criminals |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bed=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | this unfortunate people | side |  | long rows |  | by side | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent side=Value in row=Location |

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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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