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title: He looked through the loophole out upon the Odense-Au, when the bed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked through the loophole out upon the Odense-Au, when the bed of the water was yet broad, and the monks' meadow was still a lake. Who acts: monk, bed, meadow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 21

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He looked through the loophole out upon the Odense-Au, when the bed of the water was yet broad, and the monks' meadow was still a lake.

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**Who acts:** monk, bed, meadow · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** lake

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk, bed, meadow), 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:pg27200:10:21
# text = He looked through the loophole out upon the Odense-Au, when the bed of the water was yet broad, and the monks' meadow was still a lake.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	loophole	loophole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Odense	Odense	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Au	Au	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | monk |  |  |  |  | upon the Odense Au; through the loophole; out *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through loophole=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the bed of the water |  |  |  | yet | broad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the monks's meadow | a lake |  |  | still |  | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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