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title: One sits proudly apart, like a king; others sit together in a group;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One sits proudly apart, like a king; others sit together in a group; yonder, half of them are asleep; and when the steam dragon stops, they will get out and go their way. Who acts: One, others, half, steam dragon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 25

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One sits proudly apart, like a king; others sit together in a group; yonder, half of them are asleep; and when the steam dragon stops, they will get out and go their way.

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**Who acts:** One, others, half, steam dragon · **What happens:** sit, be, stop, get out, go · **To what, where:** group, way

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, others, half, steam dragon), 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:pg27200:60:25
# text = One sits proudly apart, like a king; others sit together in a group; yonder, half of them are asleep; and when the steam dragon stops, they will get out and go their way.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
35	out	out	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | One |  |  |  |  | like a king; apart *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | present | others |  |  | a group |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | half of others |  |  |  |  | asleep, yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | present | the steam dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get out** | future | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | others's way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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