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title: How homely, how patriarchal, it must have been in the old mansion, w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How homely, how patriarchal, it must have been in the old mansion, where the mistress sat at the spinning-wheel with her maids, while her husband read aloud out of the Bible!" Who acts: patriarchal, mistress, husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everythi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 83

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How homely, how patriarchal, it must have been in the old mansion, where the mistress sat at the spinning-wheel with her maids, while her husband read aloud out of the Bible!"

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**Who acts:** patriarchal, mistress, husband · **What happens:** be, sit, read · **To what, where:** old mansion, spinning wheel, Bible

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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 (patriarchal, mistress, husband), 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:pg27200:155:83
# text = How homely, how patriarchal, it must have been in the old mansion, where the mistress sat at the spinning-wheel with her maids, while her husband read aloud out of the Bible!"
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	homely	homely	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
5	patriarchal	patriarchal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must · perfect | patriarchal |  |  | the old mansion |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the mistress |  |  | the spinning wheel |  | with couple's maids | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at wheel=Location |
| 3 | **read** | past | couple's husband |  |  | the Bible |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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