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title: She sat in splendid rooms, richly decorated with silk and velvet; no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She sat in splendid rooms, richly decorated with silk and velvet; not a breath of air was allowed to blow upon her, and no one was allowed to speak to her harshly, for she was nurse to the count's child. Who acts: mother, breath, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 3

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She sat in splendid rooms, richly decorated with silk and velvet; not a breath of air was allowed to blow upon her, and no one was allowed to speak to her harshly, for she was nurse to the count's child.

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**Who acts:** mother, breath, one · **What happens:** sit, decorate, allow, blow, speak, be · **To what, where:** splendid rooms, breath, one, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, breath, one), 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:pg27200:5:3
# text = She sat in splendid rooms, richly decorated with silk and velvet; not a breath of air was allowed to blow upon her, and no one was allowed to speak to her harshly, for she was nurse to the count's child.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | mother |  |  | splendid rooms |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **decorate** | participle | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with silk and velvet; richly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme |
| 3 | **allow** | past · passive |  | a breath of air |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **blow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a breath of air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon mother | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **allow** | past · passive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* |  | mother |  |  | harshly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | for nurse; to the count's child | 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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