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title: A lonely hut stood by the wayside, a few scanty bushes grew near it,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A lonely hut stood by the wayside, a few scanty bushes grew near it, and a nightingale who had lost his way sang sweetly. Who acts: lonely hut, few scanty bushes, nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 2

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A lonely hut stood by the wayside, a few scanty bushes grew near it, and a nightingale who had lost his way sang sweetly.

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**Who acts:** lonely hut, few scanty bushes, nightingale · **What happens:** stand, grow, lose, sing · **To what, where:** hut, way

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lonely hut, few scanty bushes, nightingale), 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:pg27200:105:2
# text = A lonely hut stood by the wayside, a few scanty bushes grew near it, and a nightingale who had lost his way sang sweetly.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a lonely hut |  |  |  |  | by the wayside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a few scanty bushes |  |  | hut |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location |
| 3 | **lose** | past · perfect | a nightingale | nightingale's way |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | a nightingale |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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