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title: It was Mistress JUNE, in whose service people become lazy and fond o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was Mistress JUNE, in whose service people become lazy and fond of sleeping for hours. Who acts: dame, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 56

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It was Mistress JUNE, in whose service people become lazy and fond of sleeping for hours.

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**Who acts:** dame, people · **What happens:** be, become, sleep · **To what, where:** Mistress JUNE, service

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dame, people), 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:pg27200:82:56
# text = It was Mistress JUNE, in whose service people become lazy and fond of sleeping for hours.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	JUNE	JUNE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | dame | Mistress JUNE |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present | people |  |  |  |  | in service *result*; lazy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in service=Result |
| 3 | **sleep** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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