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title: The king likes especially the romance of Messeurs Iffven and Gaudian… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The king likes especially the romance of Messeurs Iffven and Gaudian, which describes King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Who acts: king, romance, Messeurs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 87

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The king likes especially the romance of Messeurs Iffven and Gaudian, which describes King Arthur and his knights of the round table.

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**Who acts:** king, romance, Messeurs · **What happens:** like, describe, romance · **To what, where:** romance, King Arthur

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, romance, Messeurs), 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:pg27200:41:87
# text = The king likes especially the romance of Messeurs Iffven and Gaudian, which describes King Arthur and his knights of the round table.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Messeurs	Messeurs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Iffven	Iffven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Gaudian	Gaudian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | the king | the romance of Messeurs and Gaudian |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot romance=Theme |
| 2 | **describe** | present | the romance of Messeurs and Gaudian | King Arthur and king's knights of the round table |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme |
| 3 | **romance** |  | Messeurs and Gaudian |  |  |  |  |  | nom romance «state 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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