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title: The miller's relations at Interlachen, with whom the miller and Babe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The miller's relations at Interlachen, with whom the miller and Babette were staying, invited Rudy to visit them, when they found he came from the same canton as the miller. Who acts: relations, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 153

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The miller's relations at Interlachen, with whom the miller and Babette were staying, invited Rudy to visit them, when they found he came from the same canton as the miller.

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**Who acts:** relations, Rudy · **What happens:** stay, invite, visit, find, come · **To what, where:** Rudy, relations, same canton · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (relations, Rudy), 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:pg27200:55:153
# text = The miller's relations at Interlachen, with whom the miller and Babette were staying, invited Rudy to visit them, when they found he came from the same canton as the miller.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	canton	canton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · progressive | the miller's relations at Interlachen and the miller and Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **invite** | past | the miller's relations at Interlachen and the miller and Babette *not said here* | Rudy |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rudy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* | relations *= relation* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | relations *= relation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | Rudy |  |  | the same canton as the miller |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from canton=Initial\_Location |

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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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