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title: He gathered warriors from all countries, so many that when they were… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He gathered warriors from all countries, so many that when they were placed side by side they covered the space of several miles. Who acts: prince, warriors. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 27

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He gathered warriors from all countries, so many that when they were placed side by side they covered the space of several miles.

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**Who acts:** prince, warriors · **What happens:** gather, place, cover · **To what, where:** warriors, countries, space

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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 (prince, warriors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14155`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:207:27
# text = He gathered warriors from all countries, so many that when they were placed side by side they covered the space of several miles.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | prince | warriors |  | all countries |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme from country=Source |
| 2 | **place** | past · passive |  | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  | side by side *obl:unmarked* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | past | warriors *= warrior* | the space of several miles |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme space=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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