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title: "A very beautiful place, with a floor for dancing as smooth and flat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "A very beautiful place, with a floor for dancing as smooth and flat as a plate. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 42

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"A very beautiful place, with a floor for dancing as smooth and flat as a plate.

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:140:42
# text = "A very beautiful place, with a floor for dancing as smooth and flat as a plate.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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