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title: There, too, were large easy-chairs, silken sofas, large tables full… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There, too, were large easy-chairs, silken sofas, large tables full of picture-books and full of toys, worth hundreds and hundreds of crowns--at least the children said so. Who acts: large easy chairs. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree a
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 70

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There, too, were large easy-chairs, silken sofas, large tables full of picture-books and full of toys, worth hundreds and hundreds of crowns--at least the children said so.

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**Who acts:** large easy chairs · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (large easy chairs), 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:pg1597:10:70
# text = There, too, were large easy-chairs, silken sofas, large tables full of picture-books and full of toys, worth hundreds and hundreds of crowns--at least the children said so.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sofas	sofa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | large easy chairs and silken sofas and large tables |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | least |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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