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title: Little Emily was highly pleased, and consequently, when a week had e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Emily was highly pleased, and consequently, when a week had elapsed, George sent her a few more pictures, all with buildings in them; for, you see, she could imagine all sorts of things inside the windows and doors. Who acts: Little Emily, George, you, Emily. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 104

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Little Emily was highly pleased, and consequently, when a week had elapsed, George sent her a few more pictures, all with buildings in them; for, you see, she could imagine all sorts of things inside the windows and doors.

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**Who acts:** Little Emily, George, you, Emily · **What happens:** be, elapse, send, see, imagine, sort · **To what, where:** week, few more pictures, Emily, sorts, things

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Emily, George, you, Emily), 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:pg27200:146:104
# text = Little Emily was highly pleased, and consequently, when a week had elapsed, George sent her a few more pictures, all with buildings in them; for, you see, she could imagine all sorts of things inside the windows and doors.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	consequently	consequently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
42	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Little Emily |  |  |  |  | highly, pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **elapse** | past · perfect · passive |  | a week |  |  |  | consequently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | past | George | a few more pictures and all buildings in pictures | Emily |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination picture=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **imagine** | could | Emily | all sorts of things inside the windows and doors |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | things inside the windows and doors |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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