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title: The mayor's cook had given her some roasted potatoes and a beautiful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The mayor's cook had given her some roasted potatoes and a beautiful piece of fat for the sick woman. Who acts: some. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 85

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The mayor's cook had given her some roasted potatoes and a beautiful piece of fat for the sick woman.

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**Who acts:** some · **What happens:** give, roast · **To what, where:** cook, potatoes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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:pg27200:46:85
# text = The mayor's cook had given her some roasted potatoes and a beautiful piece of fat for the sick woman.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	roasted	roast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the mayor's cook |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |
| 2 | **roast** | past | some | potatoes and a beautiful piece of fat for the sick woman |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent potato=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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