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title: On entering a room in which everything denoted prosperity, Joanna's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On entering a room in which everything denoted prosperity, Joanna's father received him very kindly. Who acts: father, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 69

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On entering a room in which everything denoted prosperity, Joanna's father received him very kindly.

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**Who acts:** father, everything · **What happens:** enter, denote, receive · **To what, where:** room, prosperity, nearer

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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 (father, everything), 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:pg27200:202:69
# text = On entering a room in which everything denoted prosperity, Joanna's father received him very kindly.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
8	denoted	denote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | Joanna's father *not said here* | a room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **denote** | past | everything | prosperity |  |  |  | in a room | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot prosperity=Theme in which=Attribute |
| 3 | **receive** | past | Joanna's father | nearer *= near* |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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