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title: Even such a little garden as this was considered in the metropolis o… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Even such a little garden as this was considered in the metropolis of Copenhagen as a great luxury. Who acts: little garden. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 56

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Even such a little garden as this was considered in the metropolis of Copenhagen as a great luxury.

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**Who acts:** little garden · **What happens:** consider · **To what, where:** this, metropolis

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little garden), 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:pg1597:9:56
# text = Even such a little garden as this was considered in the metropolis of Copenhagen as a great luxury.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	metropolis	metropolis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · passive | such little garden *not said here* | this |  | the metropolis of Copenhagen |  | as a great luxury | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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