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title: And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist. Who acts: chamberlains, train. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 85

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And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.

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**Who acts:** chamberlains, train · **What happens:** walk, carry, not exist · **To what, where:** train

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlains, train), 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:pg27200:32:85
# text = And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the chamberlains |  |  |  |  | with greater dignity | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | chamberlains *= chamberlain* | the train |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | the train |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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