--- title: In those days he lived in the clerk's house, and was to have everyth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In those days he lived in the clerk's house, and was to have everything in the house--to be at free quarters, as the saying is; but he was still, so to speak, a fine young gentleman. Who acts: Such, saying. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:135:7 # text = In those days he lived in the clerk's house, and was to have everything in the house--to be at free quarters, as the saying is; but he was still, so to speak, a fine young gentleman. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 clerk clerk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 have have VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Such | | | the clerk's house | day | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 2 | **have** | past | | everything | | the house | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | free quarters | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | present | the saying | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | Such | | | | | still *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/8/) - ↑ back to [Ole the Tower-keeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/)