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title: Ib's house was well and prettily furnished; for he was a prosperous… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ib's house was well and prettily furnished; for he was a prosperous man now, while the mother of the little girl rested in the churchyard at Copenhagen, where she had died in poverty. Who acts: Ib, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 215

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Ib's house was well and prettily furnished; for he was a prosperous man now, while the mother of the little girl rested in the churchyard at Copenhagen, where she had died in poverty.

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**Who acts:** Ib, mother · **What happens:** furnish, be, rest, die · **To what, where:** house, little girl, churchyard

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, mother), 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:pg27200:51:215
# text = Ib's house was well and prettily furnished; for he was a prosperous man now, while the mother of the little girl rested in the churchyard at Copenhagen, where she had died in poverty.
1	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	prettily	prettily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | past · passive |  | Ib's house |  |  |  | the mother of the little girl *obl*; prettily, well *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ib |  |  |  | now | for a prosperous man | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | participle |  | the little girl *not said here* |  | the churchyard at Copenhagen |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Location |
| 4 | **die** | past · perfect | mother |  |  |  |  | in poverty | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in poverty=Attribute |

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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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