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title: The parents of these children, who were poor, often sat together whi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The parents of these children, who were poor, often sat together while Knud and Joanna played in the gardens or in the road. Who acts: parents, Knud. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 13

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The parents of these children, who were poor, often sat together while Knud and Joanna played in the gardens or in the road.

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**Who acts:** parents, Knud · **What happens:** be, sit, play · **To what, where:** gardens

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Knud), 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:pg27200:202:13
# text = The parents of these children, who were poor, often sat together while Knud and Joanna played in the gardens or in the road.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the parents of this children |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the parents of this children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **play** | past | Knud and Joanna |  |  | the gardens or the road |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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