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title: Rudy was already in the parlor when she entered it, and they very so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy was already in the parlor when she entered it, and they very soon started for Villeneuve. Who acts: Rudy, smile, brows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 28

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Rudy was already in the parlor when she entered it, and they very soon started for Villeneuve.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, smile, brows · **What happens:** be, enter, start · **To what, where:** parlor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, smile, brows), 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:pg27200:65:28
# text = Rudy was already in the parlor when she entered it, and they very soon started for Villeneuve.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parlor	parlor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Villeneuve	Villeneuve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Rudy |  |  | the parlor |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | smile | parlor |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
| 3 | **start** | past | brows *= brow* |  |  |  |  | for Villeneuve; soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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