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title: Then some people came into the room, and, among them, the young coun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then some people came into the room, and, among them, the young countess,--the lady who had placed the apple-bough in the transparent vase, so pleasantly beneath the rays of the sunlight. Who acts: people, lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 47

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Then some people came into the room, and, among them, the young countess,--the lady who had placed the apple-bough in the transparent vase, so pleasantly beneath the rays of the sunlight.

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**Who acts:** people, lady · **What happens:** come, place, ray · **To what, where:** room, apple bough, transparent vase, sunlight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, lady), 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:pg27200:6:47
# text = Then some people came into the room, and, among them, the young countess,--the lady who had placed the apple-bough in the transparent vase, so pleasantly beneath the rays of the sunlight.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | some people |  |  | the room | then | among rooms *= room* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **place** | past · perfect | the lady | the apple bough |  | the transparent vase |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bough=Theme in vase=Destination |
| 3 | **ray** |  |  | the sunlight |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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