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title: In her solitude my old maid was always busy at the window, which was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In her solitude my old maid was always busy at the window, which was adorned in summer with pretty flowers, and in winter with cress, grown upon felt. Who acts: old maid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 5

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In her solitude my old maid was always busy at the window, which was adorned in summer with pretty flowers, and in winter with cress, grown upon felt.

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**Who acts:** old maid · **What happens:** be, adorn, grow · **To what, where:** solitude, window, felt

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old maid), 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:pg27200:101:5
# text = In her solitude my old maid was always busy at the window, which was adorned in summer with pretty flowers, and in winter with cress, grown upon felt.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	cress	cress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | my old maid |  |  | Moon's solitude |  | at the window; always, busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **adorn** | past · passive |  | the window |  |  | summer | with pretty flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle | my old maid *not said here* |  |  | felt | winter |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon felt=Location |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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