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title: Hauschen," means a little house; and for many years it consisted onl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Hauschen," means a little house; and for many years it consisted only of a few small houses, which were scarcely larger than the wooden booths we see in the market-places at fair time. Who acts: Hauschen, house, few small houses, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 5

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Hauschen," means a little house; and for many years it consisted only of a few small houses, which were scarcely larger than the wooden booths we see in the market-places at fair time.

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**Who acts:** Hauschen, house, few small houses, we · **What happens:** mean, consist, be, see · **To what, where:** little house, few small houses, wooden booths, market places

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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 (Hauschen, house, few small houses, we), 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:pg27200:128:5
# text = Hauschen," means a little house; and for many years it consisted only of a few small houses, which were scarcely larger than the wooden booths we see in the market-places at fair time.
1	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Hauschen | a little house |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
| 2 | **consist** *in a quote* | past | house | a few small houses |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | a few small houses |  |  |  |  | than the wooden booths; large, scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present | we | the wooden booths *not said here* |  | the market places at fair time |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer booth=Stimulus |

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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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