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title: She reached the entrance of the village, and saw the young laboring… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She reached the entrance of the village, and saw the young laboring men and maidens standing together chatting, and her own mother amongst them. Who acts: child, young laboring men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 13

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She reached the entrance of the village, and saw the young laboring men and maidens standing together chatting, and her own mother amongst them.

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**Who acts:** child, young laboring men · **What happens:** reach, see, labor, stand together, chat · **To what, where:** entrance, young laboring men

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, young laboring men), 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:pg27200:37:13
# text = She reached the entrance of the village, and saw the young laboring men and maidens standing together chatting, and her own mother amongst them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	laboring	labor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
25	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | child | the entrance of the village |  |  |  | child's own mother amongst maidens *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | child *not said here* | young laboring men and maidens |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **labor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand together** | gerund | young laboring men and maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | young laboring men and maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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