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title: She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged u… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged us to repeat the direction slowly. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 6

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She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged us to repeat the direction slowly.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** listen, seize, pause, beg, repeat · **To what, where:** us, pen, direction

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg27200:47:6
# text = She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged us to repeat the direction slowly.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | dog |  | us |  |  | attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to we=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | past |  | the pen |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme |
| 3 | **pause** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **repeat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the direction |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Eventuality |

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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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