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title: The narrow street with the high houses, was built so that the sunshi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The narrow street with the high houses, was built so that the sunshine must fall there from morning till evening--it was really not to be borne. Who acts: sunshine. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 4

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The narrow street with the high houses, was built so that the sunshine must fall there from morning till evening--it was really not to be borne.

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**Who acts:** sunshine · **What happens:** build, fall, not be · **To what, where:** narrow street, sunshine

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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 (sunshine), 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:pg1597:23:4
# text = The narrow street with the high houses, was built so that the sunshine must fall there from morning till evening--it was really not to be borne.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | the narrow street with the high houses |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **fall** | must | the sunshine |  |  | there | evening; morning |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past · passive |  | sunshine |  |  |  | bear *property* | 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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