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title: In a large town, full of houses and people, there is not room for ev… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In a large town, full of houses and people, there is not room for everybody to have even a little garden, therefore they are obliged to be satisfied with a few flowers in flower-pots. Who acts: room, everybody. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 1

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In a large town, full of houses and people, there is not room for everybody to have even a little garden, therefore they are obliged to be satisfied with a few flowers in flower-pots.

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**Who acts:** room, everybody · **What happens:** be, have, oblige · **To what, where:** large town, little garden, people

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, everybody), 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:pg27200:171:1
# text = In a large town, full of houses and people, there is not room for everybody to have even a little garden, therefore they are obliged to be satisfied with a few flowers in flower-pots.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **be** | present | room |  |  | a large town; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | everybody | a little garden |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient |
| 3 | **oblige** | present · passive |  | people |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with a few flowers in flower pots; satisfied *property* | 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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