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title: It was as great and magnificent as it had always been, and the garde… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was as great and magnificent as it had always been, and the garden looked the same as ever; all the servants were strangers to her, not one of them knew Anne Lisbeth, nor of what consequence she had once been there; but she felt sure the countess would soon let them know it, and her darling boy, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 53

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It was as great and magnificent as it had always been, and the garden looked the same as ever; all the servants were strangers to her, not one of them knew Anne Lisbeth, nor of what consequence she had once been there; but she felt sure the countess would soon let them know it, and her darling boy, too: how she longed to see him!

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**Who acts:** castle, garden, servants, strangers, consequence, countess · **What happens:** be, look, know, feel, let, long · **To what, where:** same, strangers, garden, Anne, consequence, castle

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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 (castle, garden, servants, strangers), 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:pg27200:5:53
# text = It was as great and magnificent as it had always been, and the garden looked the same as ever; all the servants were strangers to her, not one of them knew Anne Lisbeth, nor of what consequence she had once been there; but she felt sure the countess would soon let them know it, and her darling boy, too: how she longed to see him!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	parataxis	_	_
41	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
44	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	46	advmod	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	cop	_	_
46	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
51	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	56	advmod	_	_
56	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	ccomp	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
63	darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	too	too	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	70	punct	_	_
68	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	70	advmod	_	_
69	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
70	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
71	to	to	PART	TO	_	72	mark	_	_
72	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	70	xcomp	_	_
73	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | castle |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past · perfect | castle |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | the garden | the same |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | past | all servants | strangers | garden |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | past | strangers | Anne |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anne=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | past · perfect | consequence | consequence *not said here* |  |  |  | once, there *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **feel** | past | consequence |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **let** | would | the countess | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **know** | infinitive | strangers *= stranger* *not said here* | castle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 11 | **long** | past | consequence |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 12 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | consequence *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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