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title: Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses we… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly. Who acts: persons, houses. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. A
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 4

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Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly.

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**Who acts:** persons, houses · **What happens:** walk, be, see, hear · **To what, where:** town, evening sky, sound

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons, houses), 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:pg1597:18:4
# text = Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	much	much	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
42	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | that persons |  |  | the town |  | with gardens or little fields; between houses *= house* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside town=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the houses |  |  |  |  | apart, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | could | that persons | the evening sky |  |  |  | better *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** | past |  | the sound of the bell |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |

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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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