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title: Every trade was located in the basement of the houses or in the side… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every trade was located in the basement of the houses or in the side thoroughfares; and the sun shone with such heat, and the air was so close, that one seemed to be in an oven full of beetles, cockchafers, bees and flies, all humming and buzzing together. Who acts: sun, air, one, all. A sentence of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 13

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Every trade was located in the basement of the houses or in the side thoroughfares; and the sun shone with such heat, and the air was so close, that one seemed to be in an oven full of beetles, cockchafers, bees and flies, all humming and buzzing together.

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**Who acts:** sun, air, one, all · **What happens:** locate, shine, be, seem, hum, buzz · **To what, where:** trade, basement, oven

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, air, one, all), 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:pg27200:160:13
# text = Every trade was located in the basement of the houses or in the side thoroughfares; and the sun shone with such heat, and the air was so close, that one seemed to be in an oven full of beetles, cockchafers, bees and flies, all humming and buzzing together.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basement	basement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	thoroughfares	thoroughfare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	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	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	_
40	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	_
51	humming	hum	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	appos	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	conj	_	_
54	together	together	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **locate** | past · passive |  | every trade |  | the basement of the houses or the side thoroughfares |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | participle | the sun |  |  |  |  | with such heat | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the air |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | that one |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | that one *not said here* |  |  | a oven |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hum** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 7 | **buzz** | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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