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title: They offer for sale the sweetest little toy-houses, models of the mo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They offer for sale the sweetest little toy-houses, models of the mountain cottages in Switzerland. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 13

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They offer for sale the sweetest little toy-houses, models of the mountain cottages in Switzerland.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** offer, model · **To what, where:** mountain cottages

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg27200:52:13
# text = They offer for sale the sweetest little toy-houses, models of the mountain cottages in Switzerland.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	models	model	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cottages	cottage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for sale  the sweetest little toy houses and models of the mountain cottages in Switzerland *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for sale=Goal |
| 2 | **model** |  |  | the mountain cottages in Switzerland |  |  |  |  | nom model «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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