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title: In those days there was no factory nor any town house, nothing but t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In those days there was no factory nor any town house, nothing but the great farm, with its scanty-bearing fields, in which could be seen a few herd of cattle, and one or two farm laborers. Who acts: factory. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Chr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 24

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In those days there was no factory nor any town house, nothing but the great farm, with its scanty-bearing fields, in which could be seen a few herd of cattle, and one or two farm laborers.

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**Who acts:** factory · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** few herd, bearing fields

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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 (factory), 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:pg27200:51:24
# text = In those days there was no factory nor any town house, nothing but the great farm, with its scanty-bearing fields, in which could be seen a few herd of cattle, and one or two farm laborers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	appos	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	conj	_	_
41	farm	farm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	laborers	laborer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no factory nor any town house |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | could · passive |  | a few herd of cattle |  | farm's bearing fields |  | one farm laborers *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: herd=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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