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title: The old man now came with a drawer, in which there was much to be se… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man now came with a drawer, in which there was much to be seen, both “tin boxes” and “balsam boxes,” old cards, so large and so gilded, such as one never sees them now. Who acts: old man, both, balsam boxes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its de
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 88

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The old man now came with a drawer, in which there was much to be seen, both “tin boxes” and “balsam boxes,” old cards, so large and so gilded, such as one never sees them now.

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**Who acts:** old man, both, balsam boxes · **What happens:** come, be, see, box, card, gild · **To what, where:** boxes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 man, both, balsam boxes), 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:pg1597:19:88
# text = The old man now came with a drawer, in which there was much to be seen, both “tin boxes” and “balsam boxes,” old cards, so large and so gilded, such as one never sees them now.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	balsam	balsam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the old man |  |  |  | now | with a drawer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **box** *in a quote* |  | both |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **card** |  | balsam boxes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **gild** | participle | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **see** | present | the old man *not said here* | boxes *= box* |  |  | now | such one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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