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title: Belonging to the lordly manor-house was beautiful, well-kept garden,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Belonging to the lordly manor-house was beautiful, well-kept garden, with rare trees and flowers; the guests of the proprietor declared their admiration of it; the people of the neighborhood, from town and country, came on Sundays and holidays, and asked permission to see the garden; indeed, whole s
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 1

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Belonging to the lordly manor-house was beautiful, well-kept garden, with rare trees and flowers; the guests of the proprietor declared their admiration of it; the people of the neighborhood, from town and country, came on Sundays and holidays, and asked permission to see the garden; indeed, whole schools used to pay visits to it.

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**Who acts:** Belonging, guests, permission, whole schools · **What happens:** belong, be, keep, declare, come, ask · **To what, where:** garden, admiration, permission, visits

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Belonging, guests, permission, whole schools), 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:pg27200:189:1
# text = Belonging to the lordly manor-house was beautiful, well-kept garden, with rare trees and flowers; the guests of the proprietor declared their admiration of it; the people of the neighborhood, from town and country, came on Sundays and holidays, and asked permission to see the garden; indeed, whole schools used to pay visits to it.
1	Belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	lordly	lordly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
52	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	62	punct	_	_
58	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
60	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nsubj	_	_
62	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	xcomp	_	_
65	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obj	_	_
66	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the lordly manor house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Belonging |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | participle | Belonging *not said here* | garden |  |  |  | with rare trees and flowers; well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the guests of the proprietor | guests's admiration of admiration |  |  |  | the people of the neighborhood and town and country *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Attribute |
| 5 | **come** | past | the guests of the proprietor *not said here* |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the guests of the proprietor *not said here* | permission |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | permission *not said here* | the garden |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus |
| 8 | **use** | past | whole schools |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **pay** | to-infinitive | whole schools *not said here* | visits | admiration |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 10 | **admire** |  | guests *= guest* | admiration |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent 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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