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title: Were you never in the larder, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Were you never in the larder, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from above; where one dances about on tallow candles: that place where one enters lean, and comes out again fat and portly?” Who acts: you, cheeses, hams, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 156

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Were you never in the larder, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from above; where one dances about on tallow candles: that place where one enters lean, and comes out again fat and portly?”

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**Who acts:** you, cheeses, hams, one · **What happens:** be, lie, hang, dance, enter, come out · **To what, where:** larder, shelves, tallow candles, fat

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cheeses, hams, one), 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:pg1597:10:156
# text = Were you never in the larder, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from above; where one dances about on tallow candles: that place where one enters lean, and comes out again fat and portly?”
1	Were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	larder	larder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	hams	ham	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	above	above	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
33	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	portly	portly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | you |  |  | the larder |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in larder=Location |
| 2 | **lie** | present | cheeses |  |  | the shelves |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location |
| 3 | **hang** | present | hams |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dance** | present | one |  |  | tallow candles |  | about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on candle=Location |
| 5 | **enter** | present | one |  |  |  |  | lean *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come out** | present | one *not said here* | fat |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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