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title: This took place at his house, in his room; where stood large glass-c… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This took place at his house, in his room; where stood large glass-cases, filled with elegant shoes and brilliant boots. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 18

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This took place at his house, in his room; where stood large glass-cases, filled with elegant shoes and brilliant boots.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** take, stand, fill · **To what, where:** place, house, large glass cases

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg1597:27:18
# text = This took place at his house, in his room; where stood large glass-cases, filled with elegant shoes and brilliant boots.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | This | place |  | Dame's house |  | in Dame's room | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in room=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | This *not said here* | large glass cases |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fill** | participle | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with elegant shoes and brilliant boots | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shoe=Instrument |

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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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