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title: The mill was a neat and well-ordered place, that allowed itself to b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The mill was a neat and well-ordered place, that allowed itself to be sketched and written about; but the miller's daughter did not permit any to sketch or write about her. Who acts: mill, neat place, daughter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 29

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The mill was a neat and well-ordered place, that allowed itself to be sketched and written about; but the miller's daughter did not permit any to sketch or write about her.

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**Who acts:** mill, neat place, daughter · **What happens:** be, allow, sketch, write, not permit · **To what, where:** neat place, mill, any

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, neat place, daughter), 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:pg27200:55:29
# text = The mill was a neat and well-ordered place, that allowed itself to be sketched and written about; but the miller's daughter did not permit any to sketch or write about her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	_	10	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ordered	ordered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	sketched	sketch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	sketch	sketch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the mill | a neat place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | past | a neat place | mill |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer itself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sketch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | mill *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **write** | participle | mill *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **permit** | past · do-support | the miller's daughter | any |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer any=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **sketch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the miller's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **write** | infinitive | the miller's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about daughter | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic |

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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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