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title: In one of the smallest provincial towns, in a humble household, live… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of the smallest provincial towns, in a humble household, lived a poor maiden of the Jewish faith, as a servant. Who acts: smallest provincial towns. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 17

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In one of the smallest provincial towns, in a humble household, lived a poor maiden of the Jewish faith, as a servant.

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**Who acts:** smallest provincial towns · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** poor maiden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smallest provincial towns), 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:pg27200:67:17
# text = In one of the smallest provincial towns, in a humble household, lived a poor maiden of the Jewish faith, as a servant.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the smallest provincial towns and a humble household | a poor maiden of the Jewish faith |  |  |  | in one; as a servant | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location |

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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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