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title: A large doll, still handsome, though rather old, for her neck had be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A large doll, still handsome, though rather old, for her neck had been mended, lay inside one of the drawers which was partly open. Who acts: drawers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 8

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A large doll, still handsome, though rather old, for her neck had been mended, lay inside one of the drawers which was partly open.

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**Who acts:** drawers · **What happens:** mend, lay, be · **To what, where:** neck

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawers), 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:pg27200:90:8
# text = A large doll, still handsome, though rather old, for her neck had been mended, lay inside one of the drawers which was partly open.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	mended	mend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mend** | past · perfect · passive |  | number's neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | present |  |  |  |  |  | inside one of the drawers | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inside one=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | the drawers |  |  |  |  | open, partly *property* | tree rules |

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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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