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title: Emily's room was fragrant with flowers, sent by male and female frie… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Emily's room was fragrant with flowers, sent by male and female friends; on the table lay beautiful presents for greeting and remembrance, but none could come from George--none could come from him; but it was not necessary, for the whole house was full of remembrances of him. Who acts: room, none, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 42

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Emily's room was fragrant with flowers, sent by male and female friends; on the table lay beautiful presents for greeting and remembrance, but none could come from George--none could come from him; but it was not necessary, for the whole house was full of remembrances of him.

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**Who acts:** room, none, whole house · **What happens:** be, send, lie, come, not be, remember · **To what, where:** beautiful presents, table, George

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, none, whole house), 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:pg27200:148:42
# text = Emily's room was fragrant with flowers, sent by male and female friends; on the table lay beautiful presents for greeting and remembrance, but none could come from George--none could come from him; but it was not necessary, for the whole house was full of remembrances of him.
1	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	expl	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	remembrances	remembrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	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 | Emily's room |  |  |  |  | with flowers; fragrant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | participle | Emily's room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by male friends | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lie** | past |  | beautiful presents |  | the table |  | for greeting and remembrance | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location present=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | could | none |  |  | George |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from george=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come** | could | none |  |  |  |  | from George | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | Emily's room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | the whole house |  |  |  |  | of remembrances of George; full *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **remember** |  |  | George |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «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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