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title: It was to stand on a green writing table, in a very pleasant room; m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was to stand on a green writing table, in a very pleasant room; many books were scattered about, and splendid paintings hung on the walls. Who acts: candlestick. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 115

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It was to stand on a green writing table, in a very pleasant room; many books were scattered about, and splendid paintings hung on the walls.

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**Who acts:** candlestick · **What happens:** be, scatter, hang · **To what, where:** green writing table, many books, splendid paintings, walls

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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 (candlestick), 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:pg27200:133:115
# text = It was to stand on a green writing table, in a very pleasant room; many books were scattered about, and splendid paintings hung on the walls.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	parataxis	_	_
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | candlestick |  |  | a green writing table |  | in a pleasant room; stand *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | many books |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | participle |  | splendid paintings *not said here* |  | the walls |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=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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