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title: The old mansion was repaired and painted, the ditches were cleaned a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old mansion was repaired and painted, the ditches were cleaned and fruit-trees planted; all was homely and pleasant, and the floors were as white and shining as a pasteboard. Who acts: all, floors. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 38

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The old mansion was repaired and painted, the ditches were cleaned and fruit-trees planted; all was homely and pleasant, and the floors were as white and shining as a pasteboard.

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**Who acts:** all, floors · **What happens:** repair, paint, clean, plant, be, shine · **To what, where:** old mansion, ditches, fruit trees

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, floors), 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:pg27200:155:38
# text = The old mansion was repaired and painted, the ditches were cleaned and fruit-trees planted; all was homely and pleasant, and the floors were as white and shining as a pasteboard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	homely	homely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **repair** | past · passive |  | the old mansion |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clean** | past · passive |  | the ditches |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary tree=Patient |
| 4 | **plant** | participle |  | fruit trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | homely, pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the floors |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **shine** | gerund | the floors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a pasteboard | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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