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title: Mother Soren stood in front of the house, filling a brass pot with s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Soren stood in front of the house, filling a brass pot with snow, which she was going to put on the fire to get drinking water. Who acts: Mother, brass pot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 203

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Mother Soren stood in front of the house, filling a brass pot with snow, which she was going to put on the fire to get drinking water.

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**Who acts:** Mother, brass pot · **What happens:** stand, fill, go, put, get, drink · **To what, where:** front, brass pot, fire, drinking water

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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 (Mother, brass pot), 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:pg27200:149:203
# text = Mother Soren stood in front of the house, filling a brass pot with snow, which she was going to put on the fire to get drinking water.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Soren	Soren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Mother |  |  | front of the house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 2 | **fill** | gerund | Mother *not said here* | a brass pot |  |  |  | with snow | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient with snow=Instrument |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | a brass pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | a brass pot *not said here* |  |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | a brass pot *not said here* | drinking water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 6 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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