--- title: Here stood a lonely inn, and close by it a number of crippled beggar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Here stood a lonely inn, and close by it a number of crippled beggars had placed themselves; the brightest among them looked, to quote the words of Marryat, "like the eldest son of Famine who had just come of age." Who acts: brightest, eldest son. 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C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brightest, eldest son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:45:35 # text = Here stood a lonely inn, and close by it a number of crippled beggars had placed themselves; the brightest among them looked, to quote the words of Marryat, "like the eldest son of Famine who had just come of age." 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 crippled crippled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 beggars beggar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 18 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 nsubj _ _ 22 among among ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 quote quote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Marryat Marryat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 amod _ _ 37 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Famine Famine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 just just ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 acl:relcl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | a lonely inn | | here | | close *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inn=Stimulus | | 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | | a number of crippled beggars | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme themselves=Destination | | 3 | **look** | past | the brightest | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **quote** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the brightest *not said here* | the words of Marryat | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the eldest son of Famine | | | | of age | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of age=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **word** | | | Marryat | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/36/) - ↑ back to [The Best Thing the Goloshes Did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/)