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title: These kings had to kneel at his and his courtiers' feet when they sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These kings had to kneel at his and his courtiers' feet when they sat at table, and live on the morsels which they left. Who acts: kings, morsels. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 13

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These kings had to kneel at his and his courtiers' feet when they sat at table, and live on the morsels which they left.

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**Who acts:** kings, morsels · **What happens:** have, kneel, sit, live, leave · **To what, where:** feet, table, morsels

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, morsels), 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:pg27200:207:13
# text = These kings had to kneel at his and his courtiers' feet when they sat at table, and live on the morsels which they left.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	kneel	kneel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this kings |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kneel** | to-infinitive | this kings *not said here* |  |  | prince's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | kings *= king* |  |  | table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 4 | **live** | present | this kings *not said here* |  |  | the morsels |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on morsel=Location |
| 5 | **leave** | past | the morsels |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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