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title: In one of these large towns lived two poor children who had a garden… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of these large towns lived two poor children who had a garden something larger and better than a few flower-pots. Who acts: large towns, two poor children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 2

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In one of these large towns lived two poor children who had a garden something larger and better than a few flower-pots.

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**Who acts:** large towns, two poor children · **What happens:** live, have · **To what, where:** two poor children, something

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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 (large towns, two poor children), 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:pg27200:171:2
# text = In one of these large towns lived two poor children who had a garden something larger and better than a few flower-pots.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
16	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **live** | past | this large towns | two poor children |  |  |  | in one | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme child=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | two poor children | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |

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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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