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title: The coach was well stored with sweet cakes, and under the seat were… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The coach was well stored with sweet cakes, and under the seat were fruit and gingerbread nuts. " A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 116

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The coach was well stored with sweet cakes, and under the seat were fruit and gingerbread nuts. "

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**What happens:** store, be · **To what, where:** coach, seat fruit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:173:116
# text = The coach was well stored with sweet cakes, and under the seat were fruit and gingerbread nuts. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | past · passive |  | the coach |  |  |  | with sweet cakes; well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | seat fruit and gingerbread nuts |  |  |  |  | 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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