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title: The larger pieces were burnt, and the smaller ones the old woman kep… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The larger pieces were burnt, and the smaller ones the old woman kept for waxing her thread. Who acts: old woman, smaller ones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 101

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The larger pieces were burnt, and the smaller ones the old woman kept for waxing her thread.

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**Who acts:** old woman, smaller ones · **What happens:** burnt, woman, keep, wax · **To what, where:** larger pieces, old woman, thread

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, smaller ones), 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:pg27200:133:101
# text = The larger pieces were burnt, and the smaller ones the old woman kept for waxing her thread.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
14	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	waxing	wax	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | past · passive | the old woman | the larger pieces |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **woman** |  | the smaller ones |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wax** | gerund |  | woman's thread |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thread=Theme |

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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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