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title: Against one of these poles leaned an object so motionless that it mi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Against one of these poles leaned an object so motionless that it might have been mistaken for the trunk of a tree; but it was Rudy, standing there as still as at that moment was everything around him. Who acts: poles, object, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 50

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Against one of these poles leaned an object so motionless that it might have been mistaken for the trunk of a tree; but it was Rudy, standing there as still as at that moment was everything around him.

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**Who acts:** poles, object, Rudy · **What happens:** learn, mistake, be, stand · **To what, where:** object, Rudy, everything

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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 (poles, object, 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:pg27200:55:50
# text = Against one of these poles leaned an object so motionless that it might have been mistaken for the trunk of a tree; but it was Rudy, standing there as still as at that moment was everything around him.
1	Against	against	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
39	around	around	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | this poles | a object |  |  |  | against one | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Topic |
| 2 | **mistake** | might · perfect · passive |  | object |  |  |  | for the trunk of a tree | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | object | Rudy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | Rudy *not said here* |  |  | there | still; moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Rudy | everything |  |  |  | around valley | tree rules |

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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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