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title: Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fis… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp. Who acts: Nobody, old Lapland woman. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 96

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Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, old Lapland woman · **What happens:** be, dress, light · **To what, where:** home, fish, oil lamp

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, old Lapland woman), 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:pg1597:14:96
# text = Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	except	except	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	dressing	dress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Nobody |  |  | home |  | except a old Lapland woman | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | past · progressive | a old Lapland woman | fish |  |  |  | by the light of a oil lamp | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | a oil lamp |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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