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title: They saw no one near, so they took possession of it without asking p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They saw no one near, so they took possession of it without asking permission of any one, and Rudy could row very well. Who acts: walls, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 7

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They saw no one near, so they took possession of it without asking permission of any one, and Rudy could row very well.

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**Who acts:** walls, Rudy · **What happens:** see, take, ask, row, possess, permit · **To what, where:** one, possession, permission, island

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, 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:pg27200:66:7
# text = They saw no one near, so they took possession of it without asking permission of any one, and Rudy could row very well.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | walls *= wall* | no one |  |  |  | near *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | walls *= wall* | possession of island |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | walls *= wall* *not said here* | permission of any one |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient |
| 4 | **row** | could | Rudy |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | island |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **permit** |  |  | any one |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication 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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