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title: It was certainly a smaller room than those up stairs; but I was more… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was certainly a smaller room than those up stairs; but I was more comfortable; for I was not being continually taken hold of and pulled about by the children as I had been. Who acts: housekeeper, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 60

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It was certainly a smaller room than those up stairs; but I was more comfortable; for I was not being continually taken hold of and pulled about by the children as I had been.

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**Who acts:** housekeeper, I · **What happens:** be, take, not be, pull about · **To what, where:** smaller room, taken hold

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeper, I), 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:pg27200:169:60
# text = It was certainly a smaller room than those up stairs; but I was more comfortable; for I was not being continually taken hold of and pulled about by the children as I had been.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
23	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | housekeeper | a smaller room |  |  |  | than that stairs; certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past | I | taken hold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pull about** | participle |  | taken hold *not said here* |  |  |  | by the children; about *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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