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title: Four of them were asleep; the fifth was thinking of his new summer c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Four of them were asleep; the fifth was thinking of his new summer coat, which would suit him admirably; the sixth turned to the coachman and asked him if there were anything remarkable connected with yonder heap of stones. ' Who acts: Four, fifth, new summer coat, sixth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 24

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Four of them were asleep; the fifth was thinking of his new summer coat, which would suit him admirably; the sixth turned to the coachman and asked him if there were anything remarkable connected with yonder heap of stones. '

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**Who acts:** Four, fifth, new summer coat, sixth · **What happens:** be, think, suit, turn, ask, connect · **To what, where:** fifth, coachman, anything

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Four, fifth, new summer coat, sixth), 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:pg27200:98:24
# text = Four of them were asleep; the fifth was thinking of his new summer coat, which would suit him admirably; the sixth turned to the coachman and asked him if there were anything remarkable connected with yonder heap of stones. '
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	admirably	admirably	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
35	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	34	obj	_	_
36	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
37	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Four of people |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the fifth |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suit** | would | fifth's new summer coat | fifth |  |  |  | admirably *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | past | the sixth |  |  | the coachman |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to coachman=Trajectory |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the sixth *not said here* |  | fifth |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past |  | anything |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme |
| 7 | **connect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with heap of stones | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with heap=Co-Patient |

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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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