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title: Only in that single house, which stood opposite that in which the le… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Only in that single house, which stood opposite that in which the learned foreigner lived, it was quite still; and yet some one lived there, for there stood flowers in the balcony--they grew so well in the sun's heat! and that they could not do unless they were watered--and some one must water them-
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 11

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Only in that single house, which stood opposite that in which the learned foreigner lived, it was quite still; and yet some one lived there, for there stood flowers in the balcony--they grew so well in the sun's heat! and that they could not do unless they were watered--and some one must water them--there must be somebody there.

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**Who acts:** opposite, foreigner, one, flowers, sun · **What happens:** stand, learn, live, be, grow, not do · **To what, where:** opposite, single house, flowers, balcony, heat, somebody

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opposite, foreigner, one, flowers), 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:pg1597:23:11
# text = Only in that single house, which stood opposite that in which the learned foreigner lived, it was quite still; and yet some one lived there, for there stood flowers in the balcony--they grew so well in the sun's heat! and that they could not do unless they were watered--and some one must water them--there must be somebody there.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
54	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
60	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
61	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
62	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
64	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	68	expl	_	_
67	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
68	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	69	cop	_	_
69	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	63	conj	_	_
70	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	69	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | opposite |  | that single house |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent opposite=Theme in house=Destination |
| 2 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | opposite |  |  | opposite |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | foreigner |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | past | some one |  |  | there | yet |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | past | some one *not said here* | flowers |  | the balcony; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in balcony=Destination |
| 7 | **grow** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  | the sun's heat |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location |
| 8 | **not** **do** | could | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **water** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 10 | **water** | must | some one | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **is a** | infinitive | some one *not said here* | somebody |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **heat** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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