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title: "Thank heaven we are at home again within our own four walls," said… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thank heaven we are at home again within our own four walls," said mamma-in-law and daughter both, on their return after a year's absence. Who acts: we, mamma, eyes, year. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 103

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"Thank heaven we are at home again within our own four walls," said mamma-in-law and daughter both, on their return after a year's absence.

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**Who acts:** we, mamma, eyes, year · **What happens:** thank, be, say, return, absent · **To what, where:** heaven, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, mamma, eyes, year), 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:pg27200:7:103
# text = "Thank heaven we are at home again within our own four walls," said mamma-in-law and daughter both, on their return after a year's absence.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	both	both	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  | heaven |  |  | again | within our own four walls | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mamma |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **return** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | after a year's absence |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent after=obl |
| 5 | **absent** |  | a year |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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