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title: He had very pretty manners, and bowed in all directions, for he had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had very pretty manners, and bowed in all directions, for he had young ladies' blood in his veins, and was accustomed to consort only with human beings; and that was of great consequence. Who acts: King, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 5

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He had very pretty manners, and bowed in all directions, for he had young ladies' blood in his veins, and was accustomed to consort only with human beings; and that was of great consequence.

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**Who acts:** King, that · **What happens:** have, bow, accustom, consort, be · **To what, where:** pretty manners, directions, blood, veins, human beings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, that), 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:pg27200:68:5
# text = He had very pretty manners, and bowed in all directions, for he had young ladies' blood in his veins, and was accustomed to consort only with human beings; and that was of great consequence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	consort	consort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	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 | **have** | past | King | pretty manners |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient |
| 2 | **bow** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  | all directions |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | King | young ladies's blood |  | King's veins |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 4 | **accustom** | past · passive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **consort** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | human beings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | of great consequence | tree rules |

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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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