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title: And then the projecting windows stand so far out, that no one can se… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And then the projecting windows stand so far out, that no one can see from our windows what happens in that direction! Who acts: projecting windows, one, windows. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 4

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And then the projecting windows stand so far out, that no one can see from our windows what happens in that direction!

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**Who acts:** projecting windows, one, windows · **What happens:** stand, see, happen · **To what, where:** windows, direction

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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 (projecting windows, one, windows), 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:pg1597:19:4
# text = And then the projecting windows stand so far out, that no one can see from our windows what happens in that direction!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	projecting	projecting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the projecting windows |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | can | no one |  |  | our windows |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **happen** | present | our windows |  |  | that direction |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |

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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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