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title: He will kiss every one in the room, great and small; yes, even the p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He will kiss every one in the room, great and small; yes, even the poor children who stand in the passage, or out in the street singing a carol about the 'Star of Bethlehem.'" Who acts: angel, poor children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Pas
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 89

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He will kiss every one in the room, great and small; yes, even the poor children who stand in the passage, or out in the street singing a carol about the 'Star of Bethlehem.'"

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**Who acts:** angel, poor children · **What happens:** kiss, stand, sing · **To what, where:** one, room, passage, carol

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, poor children), 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:pg27200:82:89
# text = He will kiss every one in the room, great and small; yes, even the poor children who stand in the passage, or out in the street singing a carol about the 'Star of Bethlehem.'"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	carol	carol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Bethlehem	Bethlehem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | future | angel | every one |  | the room |  | the poor children *obl* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the poor children |  |  | the passage |  | in the street; out *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the poor children *not said here* | a carol |  |  |  | about the Star of Bethlehem | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme |

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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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