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title: There was an old mansion, it is still there; it did not belong to Mr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was an old mansion, it is still there; it did not belong to Mrs. Meta Mogen, it belonged to another old noble family. Who acts: old mansion, mansion. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 17

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There was an old mansion, it is still there; it did not belong to Mrs. Meta Mogen, it belonged to another old noble family.

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**Who acts:** old mansion, mansion · **What happens:** be, not belong, belong · **To what, where:** Mrs.

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old mansion, mansion), 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:pg27200:22:17
# text = There was an old mansion, it is still there; it did not belong to Mrs. Meta Mogen, it belonged to another old noble family.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Meta	Meta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	Mogen	Mogen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a old mansion |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | mansion |  |  |  | still | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **belong** | past · do-support | mansion |  | Mrs. |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **belong** | past | mansion |  |  |  |  | to another old noble family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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