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title: The town had a large market-place; and at the fair-time there would… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The town had a large market-place; and at the fair-time there would be whole rows, like streets, of tents and booths containing silks and ribbons, and toys and cakes, and everything that could be wished for. Who acts: town, tents. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 17

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The town had a large market-place; and at the fair-time there would be whole rows, like streets, of tents and booths containing silks and ribbons, and toys and cakes, and everything that could be wished for.

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**Who acts:** town, tents · **What happens:** have, be, contain, wish · **To what, where:** large market place, whole rows, silks, everything

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, tents), 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:pg27200:202:17
# text = The town had a large market-place; and at the fair-time there would be whole rows, like streets, of tents and booths containing silks and ribbons, and toys and cakes, and everything that could be wished for.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
30	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the town | a large market place |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | whole rows and streets and tents and booths and toys and cakes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | tents and booths *not said here* | silks and ribbons |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot silk=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** | could · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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