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title: Is there not even a dunghill here in this garden, where a person of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Is there not even a dunghill here in this garden, where a person of rank, like myself, could take up his abode and feel at home?" Who acts: dunghill, person. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 55

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Is there not even a dunghill here in this garden, where a person of rank, like myself, could take up his abode and feel at home?"

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**Who acts:** dunghill, person · **What happens:** be, take up, feel · **To what, where:** abode, home

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dunghill, person), 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:pg27200:8:55
# text = Is there not even a dunghill here in this garden, where a person of rank, like myself, could take up his abode and feel at home?"
1	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dunghill	dunghill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a dunghill in this garden |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take up** | could | a person of rank | person's abode |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | a person of rank *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |

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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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