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title: It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant's. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 28

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It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant's.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** be, decorate, see · **To what, where:** one, glass door

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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:pg27200:74:28
# text = It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant's.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
6	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **decorate** | participle | tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the one; beautifully *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the one |  | the glass door |  | at the rich merchant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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