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title: And the man took out of his portfolio a little book with white leave… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man took out of his portfolio a little book with white leaves: he was a painter, and with his pencil he drew the smoking house, the charred beams and the overhanging chimney, which bent more and more; in the foreground he put the large, blooming rose-bush, which presented a charming view. Wh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 113

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And the man took out of his portfolio a little book with white leaves: he was a painter, and with his pencil he drew the smoking house, the charred beams and the overhanging chimney, which bent more and more; in the foreground he put the large, blooming rose-bush, which presented a charming view.

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**Who acts:** man, picture, charred beams, rose bush · **What happens:** take out, be, draw, char, overhang, bend · **To what, where:** portfolio, painter, smoking house, large, foreground, rose bush

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, picture, charred beams, rose bush), 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:pg27200:124:113
# text = And the man took out of his portfolio a little book with white leaves: he was a painter, and with his pencil he drew the smoking house, the charred beams and the overhanging chimney, which bent more and more; in the foreground he put the large, blooming rose-bush, which presented a charming view.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	portfolio	portfolio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	charred	char	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	appos	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	foreground	foreground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
54	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
59	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | past | the man | picture's portfolio |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | picture | a painter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | past | picture | the smoking house |  |  |  | with picture's pencil | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **char** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **overhang** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bend** | past | the charred beams and the overhanging chimney |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **put** | past | picture | the large |  | the foreground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent large=Theme in foreground=Destination |
| 8 | **bloom** | gerund | picture *not said here* | rose bush |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location bush=Theme |
| 9 | **present** | past | rose bush | a charming view |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme |

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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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