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title: He put on the goloshes, and was soon in the garden, which contained… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He put on the goloshes, and was soon in the garden, which contained only one plum-tree and one apple-tree; yet, in a town, even a small garden like this is a great advantage. Who acts: sun, garden, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Gol
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 4

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He put on the goloshes, and was soon in the garden, which contained only one plum-tree and one apple-tree; yet, in a town, even a small garden like this is a great advantage.

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**Who acts:** sun, garden, this · **What happens:** put, be, contain · **To what, where:** goloshes, garden, one plum tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, garden, this), 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:pg27200:45:4
# text = He put on the goloshes, and was soon in the garden, which contained only one plum-tree and one apple-tree; yet, in a town, even a small garden like this is a great advantage.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
23	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | sun |  |  | the goloshes | yet |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on golosh=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** | past | the garden | one plum tree and one apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | like a great advantage | tree rules |

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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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