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title: The woman received them both very kindly, laid the cloth on a large… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman received them both very kindly, laid the cloth on a large table, and placed before them a dish of porridge. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 44

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The woman received them both very kindly, laid the cloth on a large table, and placed before them a dish of porridge.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** receive, lay, place · **To what, where:** wine, cloth, large table, dish

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg27200:71:44
# text = The woman received them both very kindly, laid the cloth on a large table, and placed before them a dish of porridge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	appos	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the woman | wine |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | past | the woman *not said here* | the cloth |  | a large table |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme on table=Destination |
| 3 | **place** | participle | the woman *not said here* | a dish of porridge |  |  | before wine |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme before they=Destination |

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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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