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title: A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white w… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white walls; but before it, where the old house had in fact stood, was a little garden laid out, and a wild grapevine ran up the wall of the neighboring house. Who acts: old house, wild grapevine. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 107

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A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white walls; but before it, where the old house had in fact stood, was a little garden laid out, and a wild grapevine ran up the wall of the neighboring house.

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**Who acts:** old house, wild grapevine · **What happens:** build, have, stand, be, lay out, run up · **To what, where:** fine house, fact, little garden, wall

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old house, wild grapevine), 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:pg1597:19:107
# text = A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white walls; but before it, where the old house had in fact stood, was a little garden laid out, and a wild grapevine ran up the wall of the neighboring house.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	grapevine	grapevine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	amod	_	_
48	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | a fine house |  | there | before grass | with large windows and smooth white walls | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with window=Source |
| 2 | **have** | past | the old house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the old house *not said here* |  |  | fact |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fact=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a little garden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay out** | participle |  | a little garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **run up** | past | a wild grapevine | the wall of the neighboring house |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory |
| 7 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «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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