--- title: All the plants and buildings, which the property-man had placed, wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: All the plants and buildings, which the property-man had placed, with infinite pains, in countries to which they did not belong, the poor fellow was obliged to put in their right places before cockcrow, if he wanted to get into Paradise. Who acts: property man, men, infinite pains, painter. 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C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property man, men, infinite pains, painter), 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:pg27200:139:70 # text = All the plants and buildings, which the property-man had placed, with infinite pains, in countries to which they did not belong, the poor fellow was obliged to put in their right places before cockcrow, if he wanted to get into Paradise. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 infinite infinite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pains pain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obl _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 belong belong VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 before before ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 cockcrow cockcrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 into into ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Paradise paradise NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | past · perfect | the property man | all plants and buildings | | | | with infinite pains and countries | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 2 | **not** **belong** | past · do-support | men *= man* | | | | | to countries | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **oblige** | past · passive | infinite pains and countries *not said here* | the poor fellow | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | infinite pains and countries *not said here* | | | men's right places | before cockcrow | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | | 5 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | painter | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | painter *not said here* | | | Paradise | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into paradise=Destination | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/71/) - ↑ back to [Our Aunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/)