--- title: The room had some resemblance to the clay-floored halls in Holstein;… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The room had some resemblance to the clay-floored halls in Holstein; a pretty numerous company, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen burghers, and a few scholars, sat here in deep converse over their pewter cans, and gave little heed to the person who entered. 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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 (room, numerous company, few scholars, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:5:99 # text = The room had some resemblance to the clay-floored halls in Holstein; a pretty numerous company, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen burghers, and a few scholars, sat here in deep converse over their pewter cans, and gave little heed to the person who entered. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 resemblance resemblance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 floored floor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 halls hall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Holstein Holstein PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 numerous numerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 consisting consist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 seamen seaman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Copenhagen copenhagen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 burghers burgher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 converse converse NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 pewter pewter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 cans can NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 50 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the room | some resemblance | | | | to the floored halls in Holstein; a numerous company *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient | | 2 | **floor** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **consist** | gerund | a numerous company *not said here* | | | | | of seamen and Copenhagen burghers | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | past | a few scholars | | | deep converse; here | | over scholars's pewter cans | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in converse=Location | | 5 | **give** | past | a few scholars *not said here* | little heed | the person | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to person=Recipient | | 6 | **enter** | past | the person | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/100/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/)