--- title: Apprentice-boys, children of the poor, and even the poor people them… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Apprentice-boys, children of the poor, and even the poor people themselves, stood before the house, watching the lighted windows; and the watchman might easily fancy he was giving a party also, there were so many people in the streets. Who acts: Apprentice boys, watchman, many people. 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C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apprentice boys, watchman, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:7:6 # text = Apprentice-boys, children of the poor, and even the poor people themselves, stood before the house, watching the lighted windows; and the watchman might easily fancy he was giving a party also, there were so many people in the streets. 1 Apprentice apprentice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 15 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 lighted light VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 watchman watchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 easily easily ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 fancy fancy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 also also ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 41 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Apprentice boys and children of the poor and the poor people boys | | | the house | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before house=Location | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | Apprentice boys and children of the poor and the poor people boys *not said here* | the lighted windows | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | | 3 | **light** | participle | | | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fancy** | might | the watchman | | | | | easily *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **give** | past · progressive | watchman | a party | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | | 6 | **be** | past | many people in the streets | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/7/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)