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title: A royal prince of Arabia, handsome as a prince should be, and accomp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A royal prince of Arabia, handsome as a prince should be, and accompanied by distinguished guests, was on his way to the stately house, on the roof of which the storks' empty nests might be seen. Who acts: distinguished guests. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 54

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A royal prince of Arabia, handsome as a prince should be, and accompanied by distinguished guests, was on his way to the stately house, on the roof of which the storks' empty nests might be seen.

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**Who acts:** distinguished guests · **What happens:** accompany, be, see · **To what, where:** royal prince, way, empty nests

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distinguished guests), 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:pg27200:88:54
# text = A royal prince of Arabia, handsome as a prince should be, and accompanied by distinguished guests, was on his way to the stately house, on the roof of which the storks' empty nests might be seen.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | should · passive | distinguished guests | a royal prince of Arabia |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Arabia's way |  | to the stately house | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | might · passive |  | the storks's empty nests |  |  |  | of the roof | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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