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title: This house was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest poverty was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This house was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest poverty was apparent in the garret lodging in the gable. Who acts: poor people, deepest poverty, garret. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 2

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This house was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest poverty was apparent in the garret lodging in the gable.

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**Who acts:** poor people, deepest poverty, garret · **What happens:** inhabit, be, lodge · **To what, where:** house, garret, gable

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor people, deepest poverty, garret), 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:pg27200:13:2
# text = This house was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest poverty was apparent in the garret lodging in the gable.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	lodging	lodge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gable	gable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | past · passive | poor people | this house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the deepest poverty |  |  | the garret |  | apparent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lodge** | gerund | the garret *not said here* |  |  | the gable |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gable=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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