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title: The villagers came forth to go to church; by the roadside they found… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The villagers came forth to go to church; by the roadside they found a workman seated, but he was dead! frozen to death under a willow-tree. Who acts: villagers, Joanna. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 41

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The villagers came forth to go to church; by the roadside they found a workman seated, but he was dead! frozen to death under a willow-tree.

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**Who acts:** villagers, Joanna · **What happens:** come, go, find, seat, be, freeze · **To what, where:** church, workman, willow tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (villagers, Joanna), 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:pg27200:204:41
# text = The villagers came forth to go to church; by the roadside they found a workman seated, but he was dead! frozen to death under a willow-tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
24	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the villagers |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the villagers *not said here* |  |  | church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | villagers *= villager* | a workman |  |  |  | by the roadside | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Topic |
| 4 | **seat** | participle |  | a workman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | Joanna |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **freeze** | participle | Joanna *not said here* |  |  | a willow tree |  | to death | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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