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title: It was a very nice town, and he put up at the best inn, and ordered… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a very nice town, and he put up at the best inn, and ordered a dinner of all his favorite dishes, for now he was rich and had plenty of money. Who acts: tinderbox, soldier. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 47

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It was a very nice town, and he put up at the best inn, and ordered a dinner of all his favorite dishes, for now he was rich and had plenty of money.

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**Who acts:** tinderbox, soldier · **What happens:** be, put up, order, have · **To what, where:** nice town, best inn, dinner, plenty

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tinderbox, soldier), 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:pg27200:193:47
# text = It was a very nice town, and he put up at the best inn, and ordered a dinner of all his favorite dishes, for now he was rich and had plenty of money.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | tinderbox | a nice town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put up** | past | soldier |  |  | the best inn |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=Destination |
| 3 | **order** | past |  | a dinner of soldier's favorite dishes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | soldier |  |  |  | now | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | soldier *not said here* | plenty of money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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