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title: Here stood a quaintly carved cupboard, in which rare flower-roots we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here stood a quaintly carved cupboard, in which rare flower-roots were kept, for my Lady Grubbe was fond of plants and cultivated trees and shrubs. Who acts: Lady Grubbe. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 15

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Here stood a quaintly carved cupboard, in which rare flower-roots were kept, for my Lady Grubbe was fond of plants and cultivated trees and shrubs.

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**Who acts:** Lady Grubbe · **What happens:** stand, carve, keep, be, cultivate · **To what, where:** carved cupboard, rare flower roots

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Grubbe), 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:pg27200:149:15
# text = Here stood a quaintly carved cupboard, in which rare flower-roots were kept, for my Lady Grubbe was fond of plants and cultivated trees and shrubs.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	quaintly	quaintly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
10	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a carved cupboard |  | here |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cupboard=Stimulus |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | quaintly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | past · passive |  | rare flower roots |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | my Lady Grubbe |  |  |  |  | of plants and cultivated trees and shrubs; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cultivate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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