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title: Here stood chairs and sofas covered with silk and velvet, which coul… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here stood chairs and sofas covered with silk and velvet, which could be easily rolled about on castors; there were tables with polished marble tops, and books bound in morocco with gilt edges. Who acts: tables, books. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everyth
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 55

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Here stood chairs and sofas covered with silk and velvet, which could be easily rolled about on castors; there were tables with polished marble tops, and books bound in morocco with gilt edges.

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**Who acts:** tables, books · **What happens:** stand, cover, roll about, be, polish, bound · **To what, where:** chairs, velvet, castors, morocco

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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 (tables, books), 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:pg27200:155:55
# text = Here stood chairs and sofas covered with silk and velvet, which could be easily rolled about on castors; there were tables with polished marble tops, and books bound in morocco with gilt edges.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sofas	sofa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	castors	castor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
26	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	morocco	morocco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	gilt	gilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **stand** | past |  | chairs and sofas |  | here |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | chairs and sofas *not said here* |  |  |  | with silk and velvet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme |
| 3 | **roll about** | could · passive |  | velvet |  | castors |  | about, easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on castor=Trajectory |
| 4 | **be** | past | tables with polished marble tops |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bound** | present | books |  |  | morocco |  | with gilt edges | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in morocco=Trajectory |

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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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