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title: She often came in the company of grand noble guests, to whom she sho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She often came in the company of grand noble guests, to whom she showed "the hens' and ducks' barracks," as she called the little house. Who acts: One, hens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 8

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She often came in the company of grand noble guests, to whom she showed "the hens' and ducks' barracks," as she called the little house.

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**Who acts:** One, hens · **What happens:** come, show, barrack, call · **To what, where:** company, little house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One, hens), 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:pg27200:149:8
# text = She often came in the company of grand noble guests, to whom she showed "the hens' and ducks' barracks," as she called the little house.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	barracks	barrack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | One |  |  | the company of grand noble guests |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Location |
| 2 | **show** | past | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to whom=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **barrack** *in a quote* |  | the hens |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | past | One | the little house |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient |

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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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