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title: Without, a snowstorm made every one remain at home who could do so. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Without, a snowstorm made every one remain at home who could do so. Who acts: snowstorm, home. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 177

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Without, a snowstorm made every one remain at home who could do so.

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**Who acts:** snowstorm, home · **What happens:** make, remain, do · **To what, where:** one, home

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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 (snowstorm, home), 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:pg27200:128:177
# text = Without, a snowstorm made every one remain at home who could do so.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | a snowstorm *not said here* | every one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
| 2 | **remain** | present |  |  |  | home |  | without a snowstorm | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 3 | **do** | could | home |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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