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title: On the other side of the street were also new and neat houses, and t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other side of the street were also new and neat houses, and they thought just as the others did; but at the window opposite the old house there sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks and bright beaming eyes: he certainly liked the old house best, and that both in sunshine and moonshine. Who 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 7

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On the other side of the street were also new and neat houses, and they thought just as the others did; but at the window opposite the old house there sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks and bright beaming eyes: he certainly liked the old house best, and that both in sunshine and moonshine.

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**Who acts:** railings, others, boy, both · **What happens:** be, think, do, sit, like, moonshine · **To what, where:** other side, little boy, window, old house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (railings, others, boy, both), 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:pg1597:19:7
# text = On the other side of the street were also new and neat houses, and they thought just as the others did; but at the window opposite the old house there sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks and bright beaming eyes: he certainly liked the old house best, and that both in sunshine and moonshine.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	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=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
28	opposite	opposite	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	beaming	beaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
56	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	60	nsubj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the other side of the street |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | railings *= railing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past |  | a little boy |  | the window opposite the old house; there |  | with fresh rosy cheeks and bright beaming eyes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme at window=Location |
| 5 | **like** | past | boy | the old house |  |  |  | best *obl*; certainly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=Theme |
| 6 | **moonshine** |  | both |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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