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title: In a peasant woman's humble room stood Frederick the Sixth, writing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In a peasant woman's humble room stood Frederick the Sixth, writing his name with chalk on the beam. Who acts: Frederick. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 30

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In a peasant woman's humble room stood Frederick the Sixth, writing his name with chalk on the beam.

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**Who acts:** Frederick · **What happens:** stand, write, name · **To what, where:** Frederick, humble room, name, beam

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frederick), 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:pg27200:50:30
# text = In a peasant woman's humble room stood Frederick the Sixth, writing his name with chalk on the beam.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Frederick |  | a peasant woman's humble room |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent frederick=Theme sixth=Destination |
| 2 | **write** | gerund |  | Frederick's name |  | the beam |  | with chalk | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on beam=Destination |
| 3 | **name** |  | Frederick |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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