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title: But the old grandfather remained sitting at his work and carving awa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the old grandfather remained sitting at his work and carving away at the last part of it, which was the Danish arms. Who acts: old grandfather, last part, grandfather. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 14

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But the old grandfather remained sitting at his work and carving away at the last part of it, which was the Danish arms.

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**Who acts:** old grandfather, last part, grandfather · **What happens:** remain, sit, carve away, be, work · **To what, where:** work, last part, Danish arms

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old grandfather, last part, grandfather), 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:pg27200:50:14
# text = But the old grandfather remained sitting at his work and carving away at the last part of it, which was the Danish arms.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carving	carve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the old grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | the old grandfather *not said here* |  |  | grandfather's work |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at work=Location |
| 3 | **carve away** | gerund | the old grandfather *not said here* |  |  | the last part of work and the Danish arms |  | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the last part of work and the Danish arms | the Danish arms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** |  | grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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