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title: This was King Hroar of the Springs and near the springs stood the to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This was King Hroar of the Springs and near the springs stood the town of Roeskilde, as it is called. Who acts: This, King Hroar. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 42

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This was King Hroar of the Springs and near the springs stood the town of Roeskilde, as it is called.

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**Who acts:** This, King Hroar · **What happens:** be, stand, call · **To what, where:** King Hroar, town, splashing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, King Hroar), 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:pg27200:80:42
# text = This was King Hroar of the Springs and near the springs stood the town of Roeskilde, as it is called.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Hroar	Hroar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Springs	Springs	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Roeskilde	Roeskilde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | King Hroar and the springs |  |  |  | of the Springs | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | King Hroar and the springs | the town of Roeskilde |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | splashing |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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