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title: Every morning there came an old fellow to him who put his rooms in o… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning there came an old fellow to him who put his rooms in order, and went on errands; otherwise, the old man in the plush breeches was quite alone in the old house. Who acts: old fellow, old man. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tr
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 10

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Every morning there came an old fellow to him who put his rooms in order, and went on errands; otherwise, the old man in the plush breeches was quite alone in the old house.

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**Who acts:** old fellow, old man · **What happens:** come, put, go, be · **To what, where:** rooms, order, errands, old house

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fellow, old man), 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:pg1597:19:10
# text = Every morning there came an old fellow to him who put his rooms in order, and went on errands; otherwise, the old man in the plush breeches was quite alone in the old house.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	errands	errand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	plush	plush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | past | a old fellow to man |  |  | there | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past | a old fellow to man | man's rooms |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent room=Theme in order=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | a old fellow to man *not said here* |  |  | errands |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the old man in the plush breeches |  |  | the old house |  | alone, otherwise *property* | tree rules |

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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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