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title: Her own little room in the house was clean and neat, for that was th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her own little room in the house was clean and neat, for that was the wish of the gracious lady to whom the house belonged. Who acts: own little room, that, house. 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 7

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Her own little room in the house was clean and neat, for that was the wish of the gracious lady to whom the house belonged.

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**Who acts:** own little room, that, house · **What happens:** be, belong

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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 (own little room, that, 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:pg27200:149:7
# text = Her own little room in the house was clean and neat, for that was the wish of the gracious lady to whom the house belonged.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | One's own little room in the house |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | One's own little room in the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for the wish; of the gracious lady to the wish | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | past | the house |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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