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title: In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, that there is no roof left for everybody to have a little garden; and where, on this account, most persons are obliged to content themselves with flowers in pots; there lived two little children, who had a garden somewhat larger th
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 24

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In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, that there is no roof left for everybody to have a little garden; and where, on this account, most persons are obliged to content themselves with flowers in pots; there lived two little children, who had a garden somewhat larger than a flower-pot.

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**Who acts:** roof · **What happens:** be, leave, have, oblige, content, live · **To what, where:** many people, large town, roof, little garden, account, persons

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof), 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:pg1597:11:24
# text = In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, that there is no roof left for everybody to have a little garden; and where, on this account, most persons are obliged to content themselves with flowers in pots; there lived two little children, who had a garden somewhat larger than a flower-pot.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
40	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl:relcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	content	content	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
51	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	52	expl	_	_
52	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
53	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
54	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
58	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	58	xcomp	_	_
63	than	than	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
65	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | many people |  | a large town |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | no roof |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | no roof *not said here* |  |  |  | for everybody | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for everybody=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | a little garden |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient |
| 5 | **oblige** | present · passive |  | this account |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **content** | to-infinitive |  | persons *= person* |  | pots |  | with flowers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 7 | **live** | past |  | two little children |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme child=Location |
| 8 | **have** | past |  | a garden |  |  |  | large *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=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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