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title: Therefore at night she crept away into her little chamber, which had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore at night she crept away into her little chamber, which had been decked out to look like the cave, and quickly wove one coat after another. Who acts: word. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 116

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Therefore at night she crept away into her little chamber, which had been decked out to look like the cave, and quickly wove one coat after another.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** creep away, deck out, look, weave · **To what, where:** little chamber, one coat

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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:pg27200:209:116
# text = Therefore at night she crept away into her little chamber, which had been decked out to look like the cave, and quickly wove one coat after another.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep away** | past | word |  |  | word's little chamber | night | away, therefore *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination |
| 2 | **deck out** | past · perfect · passive |  | word's little chamber |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like the cave | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **weave** | past | word *not said here* | one coat |  |  | after another | quickly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Product |

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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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