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title: But under the chandelier was a vacant space like a little crater: no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But under the chandelier was a vacant space like a little crater: not a single soul sat there, for the tallow was dropping, drip, drip! Who acts: single soul, tallow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 7

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But under the chandelier was a vacant space like a little crater: not a single soul sat there, for the tallow was dropping, drip, drip!

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**Who acts:** single soul, tallow · **What happens:** be, sit, drop · **To what, where:** vacant space, chandelier, little crater, drip

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single soul, tallow), 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:pg27200:95:7
# text = But under the chandelier was a vacant space like a little crater: not a single soul sat there, for the tallow was dropping, drip, drip!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	vacant	vacant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a vacant space |  | the chandelier |  | like a little crater | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | a single soul | a little crater *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crater=Theme |
| 3 | **drop** | past · progressive | the tallow | drip and drip |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drip=Theme |

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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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