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title: Here were a clothes cupboard, and an arm-chair, and even a chest of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here were a clothes cupboard, and an arm-chair, and even a chest of drawers; and on these drawers a polished metal plate had been placed, whereon was engraved the word "Grubbe," and this was the name of the noble family that had lived in the house of old. Who acts: this, noble family. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 9

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Here were a clothes cupboard, and an arm-chair, and even a chest of drawers; and on these drawers a polished metal plate had been placed, whereon was engraved the word "Grubbe," and this was the name of the noble family that had lived in the house of old.

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**Who acts:** this, noble family · **What happens:** be, polish, place, engrave, live · **To what, where:** clothes cupboard, polished metal plate, drawers, word, name, house

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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 (this, noble family), 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:pg27200:149:9
# text = Here were a clothes cupboard, and an arm-chair, and even a chest of drawers; and on these drawers a polished metal plate had been placed, whereon was engraved the word "Grubbe," and this was the name of the noble family that had lived in the house of old.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	compound	_	_
5	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
26	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	engraved	engrave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a clothes cupboard and a arm chair and a chest of drawers |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | a polished metal plate |  | this drawers |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on drawer=Destination |
| 4 | **engrave** | past · passive |  | the word and the name |  |  |  | whereon *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: word=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | past | this | the name |  |  |  | of the noble family | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | past · perfect | the noble family |  |  | the house of old |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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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