--- title: All the other houses in the street were so new and so neat, with lar… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: All the other houses in the street were so new and so neat, with large window panes and smooth walls, one could easily see that they would have nothing to do with the old house: they certainly thought, “How long is that old decayed thing to stand here as a spectacle in the street? 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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 (other houses, one, walls, old), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:19:3 # text = All the other houses in the street were so new and so neat, with large window panes and smooth walls, one could easily see that they would have nothing to do with the old house: they certainly thought, “How long is that old decayed thing to stand here as a spectacle in the street? 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 panes pane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 easily easily ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 “ " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 45 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 nsubj _ _ 49 decayed decay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 50 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 xcomp _ _ 53 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 52 advmod _ _ 54 as as ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 spectacle spectacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | all other houses in the street | | | | | with large window panes and smooth walls; new *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | all other houses in the street *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | could | one | | | | | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | would | walls *= wall* | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | walls *= wall* *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | with the old house | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | walls *= wall* | | | | | certainly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **decay** *in a quote* | past | old | thing | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **stand** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | old *not said here* | | | here | | as a spectacle in the street | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/4/) - ↑ back to [The Old House](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/)