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title: All the inhabitants of the country round about stood in great crowds… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All the inhabitants of the country round about stood in great crowds around the castle, almost under the very windows, to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each stepped into the hall, his power of speech seemed to desert him, like the light of a candle that is blown out. Who acts: inhabit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 58

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All the inhabitants of the country round about stood in great crowds around the castle, almost under the very windows, to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each stepped into the hall, his power of speech seemed to desert him, like the light of a candle that is blown out.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, Princess, stepped hall · **What happens:** stand, see, receive, step, seem, desert · **To what, where:** great crowds, Princess, suitors, other, light, candle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, Princess, stepped hall), 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:pg27200:28:58
# text = All the inhabitants of the country round about stood in great crowds around the castle, almost under the very windows, to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each stepped into the hall, his power of speech seemed to desert him, like the light of a candle that is blown out.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj	_	_
34	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	desert	desert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl:relcl	_	_
57	out	out	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | all inhabitants of the country |  |  | great crowds |  | around the castle; under the windows; about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in crowd=Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | all inhabitants of the country *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **receive** | infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | the suitors |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme |
| 4 | **step** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seem** | past | the stepped hall and other's power of speech |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **desert** | to-infinitive | the stepped hall and other's power of speech *not said here* | other |  |  |  | like the light of a candle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme he=Source |
| 7 | **blow out** | present · passive |  | the light of a candle |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **light** |  |  | a candle |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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