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title: In a house in Copenhagen, not far from the king's new market, a very… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In a house in Copenhagen, not far from the king's new market, a very large party had assembled, the host and his family expecting, no doubt, to receive invitations in return. Who acts: family, king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 1

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In a house in Copenhagen, not far from the king's new market, a very large party had assembled, the host and his family expecting, no doubt, to receive invitations in return.

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**Who acts:** family, king · **What happens:** assemble, expect, receive, market · **To what, where:** large party, house, invitations, return

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, king), 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:pg27200:40:1
# text = In a house in Copenhagen, not far from the king's new market, a very large party had assembled, the host and his family expecting, no doubt, to receive invitations in return.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
35	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past · perfect · passive |  | a large party |  | a house in Copenhagen from the king's new market |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary host=Product |
| 2 | **expect** | gerund | king's family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive |  | invitations |  | return |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme in return=Location |
| 4 | **market** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom market «act transitive»: poss=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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