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title: In one of the houses not far from the new market a party was invited… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of the houses not far from the new market a party was invited--a very large party, in order, as is often the case, to get a return invitation from the others. Who acts: new market, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 7

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In one of the houses not far from the new market a party was invited--a very large party, in order, as is often the case, to get a return invitation from the others.

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**Who acts:** new market, one · **What happens:** invite, be, get · **To what, where:** party, case, return invitation, others

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new market, one), 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:pg1597:5:7
# text = In one of the houses not far from the new market a party was invited--a very large party, in order, as is often the case, to get a return invitation from the others.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	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 | **invite** | past · passive | the new market *not said here* | a party |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | one of the houses and a large party and order | the case |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | one of the houses and a large party and order *not said here* | a return invitation |  | the others |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme from other=Source |

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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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