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title: Towards the evening robbers came; they killed three of her people an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards the evening robbers came; they killed three of her people and also the yard-dog, and attached Mrs. Meta to the kennel by the chain, while they themselves made good cheer in the hall and drank the wine and the good ale out of her cellar. Who acts: robbers, chain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 6

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Towards the evening robbers came; they killed three of her people and also the yard-dog, and attached Mrs. Meta to the kennel by the chain, while they themselves made good cheer in the hall and drank the wine and the good ale out of her cellar.

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**Who acts:** robbers, chain · **What happens:** come, kill, attach, make, drink · **To what, where:** evening robbers, three people, Mrs., good cheer, hall, wine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, chain), 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:pg27200:22:6
# text = Towards the evening robbers came; they killed three of her people and also the yard-dog, and attached Mrs. Meta to the kennel by the chain, while they themselves made good cheer in the hall and drank the wine and the good ale out of her cellar.
1	Towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	Meta	Meta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	kennel	kennel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	out	out	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the evening robbers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards robber=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **kill** | past | robbers *= robber* | deal's three people and the yard dog |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **attach** | participle · passive | the chain | Mrs. |  |  |  | to the kennel | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to kennel=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | robbers *= robber* | good cheer |  | the hall |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheer=Product |
| 5 | **drink** | past | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | the wine and the good ale out deal's cellar |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=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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