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title: Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree:… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house. Who acts: girl, tree. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl, wit
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 26

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Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house.

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**Who acts:** girl, tree · **What happens:** sit, be, decorate, see · **To what, where:** magnificent Christmas tree, one, glass door

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, tree), 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:pg1597:24:26
# text = Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | girl |  |  | the magnificent Christmas tree | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | tree |  |  |  | still | large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **decorate** | participle | tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the one | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the one |  | the glass door |  | in the rich merchant's house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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