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title: Some days afterwards there was an auction at the old house, and the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some days afterwards there was an auction at the old house, and the little boy saw from his window how they carried the old knights and the old ladies away, the flower-pots with the long ears, the old chairs, and the old clothes-presses. Who acts: auction, little boy, friends. A sentence of «Anderse
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 101

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Some days afterwards there was an auction at the old house, and the little boy saw from his window how they carried the old knights and the old ladies away, the flower-pots with the long ears, the old chairs, and the old clothes-presses.

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**Who acts:** auction, little boy, friends · **What happens:** be, see, carry · **To what, where:** window, old knights

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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 (auction, little boy, friends), 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:pg1597:19:101
# text = Some days afterwards there was an auction at the old house, and the little boy saw from his window how they carried the old knights and the old ladies away, the flower-pots with the long ears, the old chairs, and the old clothes-presses.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	auction	auction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	parataxis	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	51	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	presses	press	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a auction at the old house |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the little boy |  |  | boy's window |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **carry** | past | friends *= friend* | the old knights and the old ladies |  |  |  | clothes presses *obl*; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme |

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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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