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title: There are rooms and halls in it, but we do not enter them, we remain… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There are rooms and halls in it, but we do not enter them, we remain in the kitchen, where it is warm and light, clean and tidy; the copper utensils are shining, the table as if polished with beeswax; the sink looks like a freshly scoured meatboard. Who acts: rooms, we, kitchen, copper utensils. A s
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 32

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There are rooms and halls in it, but we do not enter them, we remain in the kitchen, where it is warm and light, clean and tidy; the copper utensils are shining, the table as if polished with beeswax; the sink looks like a freshly scoured meatboard.

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**Who acts:** rooms, we, kitchen, copper utensils, sink · **What happens:** be, not enter, remain, shine, polish, look · **To what, where:** hall, rooms, kitchen, table

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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 (rooms, we, kitchen, copper utensils), 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:pg27200:22:32
# text = There are rooms and halls in it, but we do not enter them, we remain in the kitchen, where it is warm and light, clean and tidy; the copper utensils are shining, the table as if polished with beeswax; the sink looks like a freshly scoured meatboard.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	utensils	utensil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	beeswax	beeswax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	freshly	freshly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	scoured	scour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	meatboard	meatboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | rooms and halls |  |  | hall; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 2 | **not** **enter** | present · do-support | we | rooms *= room* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
| 3 | **remain** | present | we |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | kitchen |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | kitchen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | kitchen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shine** | present · progressive | the copper utensils | the table |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **polish** | participle | the copper utensils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with beeswax | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with beeswax=Theme |
| 9 | **look** | present | the sink |  |  |  |  | like a scoured meatboard | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 10 | **scour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | freshly *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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