--- title: It was a real child's castle, and under every window was written wha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was a real child's castle, and under every window was written what the hall or the room inside was intended to be; for instance: "Here Emily sleeps;" "Here Emily dances;" "Here Emily plays at receiving visitors." Who acts: carriage, Emily. 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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 (carriage, Emily), 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:pg27200:146:113 # text = It was a real child's castle, and under every window was written what the hall or the room inside was intended to be; for instance: "Here Emily sleeps;" "Here Emily dances;" "Here Emily plays at receiving visitors." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 inside inside ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 intended intend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 instance instance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 32 Emily Emily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 38 Emily Emily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 44 Emily Emily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 46 at at SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 47 receiving receive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 48 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | carriage | a real child's castle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **write** | past · passive | | a real child's castle *not said here* | | every window | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **intend** | past · passive | | the hall or the room | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | Emily | instance *not said here* | | here | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **play** *in a quote* | present | Emily | | | here | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **receive** *in a quote* | gerund | Emily *not said here* | visitors | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme | 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/114/) - ↑ back to [The Porter's Son, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/)