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title: It was quite still in Ida's bedroom; the night-lamp burnt on the tab… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was quite still in Ida's bedroom; the night-lamp burnt on the table, and her father and mother were asleep. " Who acts: fault, father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 78

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It was quite still in Ida's bedroom; the night-lamp burnt on the table, and her father and mother were asleep. "

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**Who acts:** fault, father · **What happens:** be, burnt · **To what, where:** bedroom, night lamp, table

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fault, father), 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:pg27200:73:78
# text = It was quite still in Ida's bedroom; the night-lamp burnt on the table, and her father and mother were asleep. "
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
14	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | fault |  |  | Ida's bedroom | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burnt** | participle |  | the night lamp *not said here* |  | the table |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ida's father and mother |  |  |  |  | asleep *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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