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title: Rouge-pots, scent-boxes, and old cards, so large and so richly gilde… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rouge-pots, scent-boxes, and old cards, so large and so richly gilded, that none are ever seen like them in these days. Who acts: pots. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 99

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Rouge-pots, scent-boxes, and old cards, so large and so richly gilded, that none are ever seen like them in these days.

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**Who acts:** pots · **What happens:** gild, see · **To what, where:** none

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pots), 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:pg27200:131:99
# text = Rouge-pots, scent-boxes, and old cards, so large and so richly gilded, that none are ever seen like them in these days.
1	Rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl:agent	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | present · passive | pots *= pot* | none |  |  | ever; day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=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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