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title: Some young ladies came, and the servants helped them to adorn the tr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Some young ladies came, and the servants helped them to adorn the tree. Who acts: young ladies, servants, ladies. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 62

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Some young ladies came, and the servants helped them to adorn the tree.

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**Who acts:** young ladies, servants, ladies · **What happens:** come, help, adorn · **To what, where:** ladies, tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young ladies, servants, ladies), 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:pg27200:33:62
# text = Some young ladies came, and the servants helped them to adorn the tree.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | some young ladies |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | past | the servants | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **adorn** | to-infinitive | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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