--- title: In the long winter evenings the mistress and her maids sat at the sp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the long winter evenings the mistress and her maids sat at the spinning-wheel in the large hall; every Sunday the counsellor--this title the pedlar had obtained, although only in his old days--read aloud a portion from the Bible. Who acts: mistress, title, old days. 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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 (mistress, title, old days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:155:39 # text = In the long winter evenings the mistress and her maids sat at the spinning-wheel in the large hall; every Sunday the counsellor--this title the pedlar had obtained, although only in his old days--read aloud a portion from the Bible. 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 evenings evening NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 maids maid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pedlar pedlar NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 obtained obtain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 although although SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 42 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 portion portion NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | the mistress and tree's maids | | | the spinning wheel | evening | in the large hall | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at wheel=Location | | 2 | **obtain** | past · perfect · passive | this title *not said here* | the pedlar | | | day | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **read** | participle | pedlar's old days *not said here* | a portion | | the Bible | | aloud *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent portion=Topic from bible=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/40/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)