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title: Then two servants came in rich livery and carried the Fir Tree into… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then two servants came in rich livery and carried the Fir Tree into a large and splendid drawing-room. Who acts: two servants. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 68

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Then two servants came in rich livery and carried the Fir Tree into a large and splendid drawing-room.

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**Who acts:** two servants · **What happens:** come, carry · **To what, where:** rich livery, Fir Tree, large drawing room

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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 (two servants), 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:pg1597:10:68
# text = Then two servants came in rich livery and carried the Fir Tree into a large and splendid drawing-room.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	livery	livery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Fir	Fir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | two servants |  |  | rich livery | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in livery=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | past | two servants *not said here* | the Fir Tree |  | a large drawing room |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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:** «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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