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title: At every station strangers alight with red-bound guide-books in thei… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At every station strangers alight with red-bound guide-books in their hands, in which they read of every place worth seeing. Who acts: books. 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 84

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At every station strangers alight with red-bound guide-books in their hands, in which they read of every place worth seeing.

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**Who acts:** books · **What happens:** bind, read, see

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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 (books), 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:pg27200:66:84
# text = At every station strangers alight with red-bound guide-books in their hands, in which they read of every place worth seeing.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	alight	alight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
10	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **read** | past | books *= book* |  |  |  |  | of every place | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of place=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | books *= book* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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