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title: There was no one at home but an old Lapland woman, who was cooking f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no one at home but an old Lapland woman, who was cooking fish by the light of a train-oil lamp. Who acts: one, old Lapland woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 2

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There was no one at home but an old Lapland woman, who was cooking fish by the light of a train-oil lamp.

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**Who acts:** one, old Lapland woman · **What happens:** be, cook, light · **To what, where:** fish, oil lamp

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, old Lapland woman), 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:pg27200:175:2
# text = There was no one at home but an old Lapland woman, who was cooking fish by the light of a train-oil lamp.
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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	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 | no one at home but a old Lapland woman |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** | past · progressive | a old Lapland woman | fish |  |  |  | by the light of a oil lamp | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | a oil lamp |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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