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title: In the garden of the grand duke's palace, under the roof of one of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the garden of the grand duke's palace, under the roof of one of the wings, where a thousand roses bloom in winter, a little ragged boy had been sitting the whole day long; a boy, who might serve as a type of Italy, lovely and smiling, and yet still suffering. Who acts: thousand roses, little ragg
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 7

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In the garden of the grand duke's palace, under the roof of one of the wings, where a thousand roses bloom in winter, a little ragged boy had been sitting the whole day long; a boy, who might serve as a type of Italy, lovely and smiling, and yet still suffering.

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**Who acts:** thousand roses, little ragged boy, boy · **What happens:** bloom, sit, serve, smile, suffer, type · **To what, where:** boy, garden, Italy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand roses, little ragged boy, boy), 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:pg27200:89:7
# text = In the garden of the grand duke's palace, under the roof of one of the wings, where a thousand roses bloom in winter, a little ragged boy had been sitting the whole day long; a boy, who might serve as a type of Italy, lovely and smiling, and yet still suffering.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bloom	bloom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux	_	_
34	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl:relcl	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	appos	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
58	still	still	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | present | thousand roses |  |  |  | winter |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past · perfect · progressive | a little ragged boy | a boy |  | the garden of the grand duke's palace and the roof of one of the wings | day | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location |
| 3 | **serve** | might | a boy |  |  |  |  | as a type of Italy | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as type=Attribute |
| 4 | **smile** | gerund | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suffer** | gerund | a little ragged boy *not said here* |  |  |  | yet; still |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **type** |  |  | Italy |  |  |  |  | nom type «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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