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title: Yet she remained always poor, and at home in the garret lay her only… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet she remained always poor, and at home in the garret lay her only daughter, not quite grown up, and very delicate and weak. Who acts: garret. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 24

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Yet she remained always poor, and at home in the garret lay her only daughter, not quite grown up, and very delicate and weak.

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**Who acts:** garret · **What happens:** remain, lie, not grow up · **To what, where:** garret, home

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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 (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:pg27200:141:24
# text = Yet she remained always poor, and at home in the garret lay her only daughter, not quite grown up, and very delicate and weak.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | garret |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past |  | garret |  | home in the garret |  | daughter *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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