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title: There stood a splendid house in the town, filled with all kinds of b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood a splendid house in the town, filled with all kinds of beautiful and valuable objects. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 27

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There stood a splendid house in the town, filled with all kinds of beautiful and valuable objects.

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**What happens:** stand, fill · **To what, where:** splendid house, town

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. 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:pg27200:18:27
# text = There stood a splendid house in the town, filled with all kinds of beautiful and valuable objects.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a splendid house |  | the town; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in town=Destination |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with all kinds of beautiful objects | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with kind=Instrument |

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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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