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title: Now, there are among us human creatures certain individuals who are… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, there are among us human creatures certain individuals who are known as "emancipated women," as, for instance, principals of institutions, dancers who stand professionally on one leg, milliners, and sick-nurses; and with this class of emancipated women the two Maidens in the shed associated the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 7

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Now, there are among us human creatures certain individuals who are known as "emancipated women," as, for instance, principals of institutions, dancers who stand professionally on one leg, milliners, and sick-nurses; and with this class of emancipated women the two Maidens in the shed associated themselves.

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**Who acts:** dancers · **What happens:** be, know, emancipate, stand, associate · **To what, where:** human creatures, certain individuals, one leg, women · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancers), 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:pg27200:200:7
# text = Now, there are among us human creatures certain individuals who are known as "emancipated women," as, for instance, principals of institutions, dancers who stand professionally on one leg, milliners, and sick-nurses; and with this class of emancipated women the two Maidens in the shed associated themselves.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	emancipated	emancipate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	principals	principal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	professionally	professionally	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	milliners	milliner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
47	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	emancipated	emancipate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	Maidens	Maiden	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	associated	associate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
58	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | human creatures and principals of institutions and dancers and sick nurses; there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among creature=Location |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  | certain individuals |  |  |  | as emancipated women; for instance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as woman=Attribute |
| 3 | **emancipate** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | present | dancers |  |  | one leg and milliners |  | professionally *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 5 | **emancipate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **associate** | past |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  | with this class of emancipated women  the two Maidens in the shed | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with class=Co-Patient |

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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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