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title: A number of elegantly dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign land… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A number of elegantly dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands, and crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons, were assembled in the town. Who acts: number. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 120

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A number of elegantly dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands, and crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons, were assembled in the town.

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**Who acts:** number · **What happens:** dress, assemble · **To what, where:** crowds, town

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), 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:pg27200:55:120
# text = A number of elegantly dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands, and crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons, were assembled in the town.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	elegantly	elegantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	neighboring	neighboring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cantons	canton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | elegantly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **assemble** | past · passive | a number of dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands *not said here* | crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons |  | the town |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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