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title: Within the little garret lived a poor woman, who went out to clean s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Within the little garret lived a poor woman, who went out to clean stoves, chop wood into small pieces and perform such-like hard work, for she was strong and industrious. Who acts: little garret, poor woman, garret. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea B
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 23

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Within the little garret lived a poor woman, who went out to clean stoves, chop wood into small pieces and perform such-like hard work, for she was strong and industrious.

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**Who acts:** little garret, poor woman, garret · **What happens:** live, go out, clean, perform, be · **To what, where:** poor woman, stoves, small pieces, like hard work

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little garret, poor woman, garret), 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:pg27200:141:23
# text = Within the little garret lived a poor woman, who went out to clean stoves, chop wood into small pieces and perform such-like hard work, for she was strong and industrious.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	stoves	stove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the little garret | a poor woman |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location |
| 2 | **go out** | past | a poor woman |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **clean** | to-infinitive | a poor woman *not said here* | stoves and chop wood |  | small pieces |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stove=Patient |
| 4 | **perform** | present | a poor woman *not said here* | like hard work |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | garret |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | garret *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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