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title: We are in a rich, happy house, where the master, the servants, the f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We are in a rich, happy house, where the master, the servants, the friends of the family are full of joy and felicity. Who acts: We, master. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 1

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We are in a rich, happy house, where the master, the servants, the friends of the family are full of joy and felicity.

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**Who acts:** We, master · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rich happy house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, master), 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:pg27200:70:1
# text = We are in a rich, happy house, where the master, the servants, the friends of the family are full of joy and felicity.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	felicity	felicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  |  | a rich happy house |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the master and the servants and the friends of the family |  |  |  |  | of joy and felicity; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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