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title: One of the Frankish gentlemen made me stand in front of a rock, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the Frankish gentlemen made me stand in front of a rock, and drew us both as we stood there, so that we looked like one creature. Who acts: One, me, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 44

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One of the Frankish gentlemen made me stand in front of a rock, and drew us both as we stood there, so that we looked like one creature.

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**Who acts:** One, me, we · **What happens:** make, stand, draw, look · **To what, where:** me, front, us

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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 (One, me, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:2538`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:36:44
# text = One of the Frankish gentlemen made me stand in front of a rock, and drew us both as we stood there, so that we looked like one creature.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Frankish	Frankish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | One of the Frankish gentlemen | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | front of a rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past | One of the Frankish gentlemen *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | we |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | past | we |  |  |  |  | like one creature | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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