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title: A pretty room and a good bed were provided for him, and yet his rece… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A pretty room and a good bed were provided for him, and yet his reception was not what he had expected and dreamed it would be. Who acts: reception, Sweetly. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 114

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A pretty room and a good bed were provided for him, and yet his reception was not what he had expected and dreamed it would be.

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**Who acts:** reception, Sweetly · **What happens:** provide, not be, expect, dream, be, receive · **To what, where:** pretty room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reception, Sweetly), 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:pg27200:128:114
# text = A pretty room and a good bed were provided for him, and yet his reception was not what he had expected and dreamed it would be.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past · passive |  | a pretty room and a good bed |  |  |  | for Sweetly | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for he=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | Sweetly's reception |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **dream** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **be** | would | reception |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **receive** |  | Sweetly |  |  |  |  |  | nom reception «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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