--- title: He gazed at the street formerly so well known to him, and now so str… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He gazed at the street formerly so well known to him, and now so strange in appearance, and looked at the houses more attentively: most of them were of wood, slightly put together; and many had a thatched roof. Who acts: Councillor, most, many. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Councillor, most, many), 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:pg1597:5:81 # text = He gazed at the street formerly so well known to him, and now so strange in appearance, and looked at the houses more attentively: most of them were of wood, slightly put together; and many had a thatched roof. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 formerly formerly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 attentively attentively ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ _ 31 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 37 together together ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 nsubj _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 thatched thatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 44 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gaze** | past | Councillor | | | | | at the street; formerly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at street=Theme | | 2 | **know** | participle | Councillor *not said here* | | Councillor | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **look** | past | | | | | | at the houses; attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme | | 4 | **be** | past | most of houses | | | | | of wood | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **put together** | participle | most of houses *not said here* | | | | | slightly, together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | past | many | a thatched roof | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | | 7 | **thatch** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/82/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/)