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title: They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house join… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other. Who acts: parents, roof, gutter, one. A sente
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 27

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They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other.

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**Who acts:** parents, roof, gutter, one · **What happens:** inhabit, join, run, be, need, step · **To what, where:** two garrets, extreme end, small window, gutter, one window

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, roof, gutter, one), 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:pg1597:11:27
# text = They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	garrets	garret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gutter	gutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nsubj	_	_
41	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
45	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	gutter	gutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | past | parents *= parent* | two garrets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | past | the roof of the one house |  |  |  |  | of the other | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | past | the gutter |  |  |  | along the extreme end of roof |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along end=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a small window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **step** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  | the gutter |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over gutter=Trajectory |
| 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  | one window |  | to the other | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from window=Initial\_Location to other=Destination |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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