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title: They had tents and beds with them, carried by horses; and they were… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had tents and beds with them, carried by horses; and they were accompanied by more than twenty Turks, all armed with swords and muskets. Who acts: sorrows, twenty Turks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 38

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They had tents and beds with them, carried by horses; and they were accompanied by more than twenty Turks, all armed with swords and muskets.

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**Who acts:** sorrows, twenty Turks · **What happens:** have, carry, accompany · **To what, where:** tents, sorrows

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrows, twenty Turks), 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:pg27200:36:38
# text = They had tents and beds with them, carried by horses; and they were accompanied by more than twenty Turks, all armed with swords and muskets.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	Turks	turk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	muskets	musket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | sorrows *= sorrow* | tents and beds with beds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | participle |  | tents and beds with beds *not said here* |  |  |  | by horses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accompany** | past · passive | twenty Turks | sorrows *= sorrow* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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