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title: Each of the young princesses had a little plot of ground in the gard… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of the young princesses had a little plot of ground in the garden, where she might dig and plant as she pleased. Who acts: Each, sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 20

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Each of the young princesses had a little plot of ground in the garden, where she might dig and plant as she pleased.

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**Who acts:** Each, sun · **What happens:** have, dig, plant, plot · **To what, where:** little plot, garden, ground

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, sun), 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:pg27200:75:20
# text = Each of the young princesses had a little plot of ground in the garden, where she might dig and plant as she pleased.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Each | a little plot of ground |  | the garden |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Patient |
| 2 | **dig** | might | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plant** | infinitive | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **plot** |  |  | ground |  |  |  |  | nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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