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title: The conversation on this topic was only interrupted for a moment by… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The conversation on this topic was only interrupted for a moment by the arrival of a newspaper, which did not, however, contain much worth reading, and while it is still going on we will pay a visit to the ante-room, in which cloaks, sticks, and goloshes were carefully placed. Who acts: arrival, new
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 7

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The conversation on this topic was only interrupted for a moment by the arrival of a newspaper, which did not, however, contain much worth reading, and while it is still going on we will pay a visit to the ante-room, in which cloaks, sticks, and goloshes were carefully placed.

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**Who acts:** arrival, newspaper, Conversation, we · **What happens:** interrupt, not do, contain, go, pay, place · **To what, where:** conversation, worth reading, visit, cloaks, goloshes

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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 (arrival, newspaper, Conversation, we), 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:pg27200:40:7
# text = The conversation on this topic was only interrupted for a moment by the arrival of a newspaper, which did not, however, contain much worth reading, and while it is still going on we will pay a visit to the ante-room, in which cloaks, sticks, and goloshes were carefully placed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	however	however	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
36	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	ante	ante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	50	det	_	_
50	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
57	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interrupt** | past · passive | the arrival of a newspaper | the conversation on this topic |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | past | a newspaper |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contain** | present |  | worth reading |  |  |  | however *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reading=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present · progressive | Conversation |  |  |  | still |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **pay** | future | we | a visit |  | which cloaks and sticks |  | to the ante room | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 6 | **place** | past · passive |  | goloshes |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **arrive** |  | a newspaper |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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