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title: There were rocking chairs, silken sofas, large tables, covered with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were rocking chairs, silken sofas, large tables, covered with pictures, books, and playthings, worth a great deal of money,--at least, the children said so. Who acts: rocking chairs, children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 58

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There were rocking chairs, silken sofas, large tables, covered with pictures, books, and playthings, worth a great deal of money,--at least, the children said so.

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**Who acts:** rocking chairs, children · **What happens:** be, rock, cover, say, deal · **To what, where:** large tables, least, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocking chairs, children), 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:pg27200:33:58
# text = There were rocking chairs, silken sofas, large tables, covered with pictures, books, and playthings, worth a great deal of money,--at least, the children said so.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sofas	sofa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | rocking chairs and silken sofas and large tables |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | large tables *not said here* |  |  |  | with pictures and books | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with picture=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the children |  |  | least |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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