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title: One day she was visiting a nobleman's house in town; my grandmother,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One day she was visiting a nobleman's house in town; my grandmother, I believe, had been the lady's nurse when she was a child. Who acts: mother, I, One day. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 92

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One day she was visiting a nobleman's house in town; my grandmother, I believe, had been the lady's nurse when she was a child.

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**Who acts:** mother, I, One day · **What happens:** visit, believe, be · **To what, where:** house, town, grandmother, nurse, child

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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 (mother, I, One day), 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:pg27200:155:92
# text = One day she was visiting a nobleman's house in town; my grandmother, I believe, had been the lady's nurse when she was a child.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past · progressive | mother | a nobleman's house |  | town |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **believe** | present | I | my grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | One day | the lady's nurse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | mother | a child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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