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title: The house in which she dwelt was small and neat, but dreary to behol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The house in which she dwelt was small and neat, but dreary to behold, for there were no flowers near it--no trees. Who acts: gate, house, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 15

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The house in which she dwelt was small and neat, but dreary to behold, for there were no flowers near it--no trees.

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**Who acts:** gate, house, flowers · **What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, house, flowers), 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:pg27200:206:15
# text = The house in which she dwelt was small and neat, but dreary to behold, for there were no flowers near it--no trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | gate |  |  | the house |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past | no flowers near house and no trees |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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