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title: There was wealth, comfort, and happiness even among the domestic ani… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was wealth, comfort, and happiness even among the domestic animals, for they were all well cared for, and well kept. Who acts: wealth, domestic animals. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 20

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There was wealth, comfort, and happiness even among the domestic animals, for they were all well cared for, and well kept.

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**Who acts:** wealth, domestic animals · **What happens:** be, care, keep · **To what, where:** wealth

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealth, domestic animals), 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:pg27200:162:20
# text = There was wealth, comfort, and happiness even among the domestic animals, for they were all well cared for, and well kept.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | wealth and comfort |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **care** | past · passive | the domestic animals *not said here* | wealth |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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