--- title: The fact was, he had been just brought out of the fields, and put in… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The fact was, he had been just brought out of the fields, and put in a pasteboard house, three stories high, all made of court-cards, with the colored side inwards; and doors and windows cut out of the body of the Queen of Hearts. Who acts: fact, doors. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, doors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:16:8 # text = The fact was, he had been just brought out of the fields, and put in a pasteboard house, three stories high, all made of court-cards, with the colored side inwards; and doors and windows cut out of the body of the Queen of Hearts. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 pasteboard pasteboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 colored color VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 37 inwards inwards ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 43 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 44 out out ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Hearts Heart PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the fact | | | the fields | | bring *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | participle | | | | a pasteboard house | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in house=Destination | | 3 | **make** | participle · passive | | all | | | | of court cards; with the colored side | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **color** | participle | | | | | | | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cut out** | present | doors and windows | the body of the Queen of Hearts | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector body=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/9/) - ↑ back to [The Leap-frog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/16/)