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title: All behaved themselves properly excepting the two young northern gob… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All behaved themselves properly excepting the two young northern goblins; they put their legs on the table and thought they were all right. Who acts: folks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 56

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All behaved themselves properly excepting the two young northern goblins; they put their legs on the table and thought they were all right.

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**Who acts:** folks · **What happens:** behave, except, put, think, be · **To what, where:** All, two young northern goblins, legs, table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folks), 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:pg27200:31:56
# text = All behaved themselves properly excepting the two young northern goblins; they put their legs on the table and thought they were all right.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	behaved	behave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behave** | participle · passive |  | All |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **except** | gerund |  | the two young northern goblins |  |  |  | properly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | folks *= folk* | folks's legs |  | the table |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme on table=Destination |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | folks *= folk* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | folks *= folk* |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |

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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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