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title: But in the gabled window of the knightly castle, the lady of the cas… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the gabled window of the knightly castle, the lady of the castle sat with the parchment roll before her, and wrote down the old recollections in song and legend, while near her stood the old woman from the wood, and the travelling peddler who went wandering through the country. Who acts: trav
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 28

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But in the gabled window of the knightly castle, the lady of the castle sat with the parchment roll before her, and wrote down the old recollections in song and legend, while near her stood the old woman from the wood, and the travelling peddler who went wandering through the country.

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**Who acts:** travelling peddler · **What happens:** sit, write down, stand, travel, go, wonder · **To what, where:** gabled window, old recollections, song, old woman, wood, country

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelling peddler), 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:pg27200:11:28
# text = But in the gabled window of the knightly castle, the lady of the castle sat with the parchment roll before her, and wrote down the old recollections in song and legend, while near her stood the old woman from the wood, and the travelling peddler who went wandering through the country.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	gabled	gabled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	parchment	parchment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	recollections	recollection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	near	near	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
38	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	amod	_	_
49	peddler	peddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
52	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	xcomp	_	_
53	through	through	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | the gabled window of the knightly castle and the lady of the castle | before stupidity | with the parchment roll | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location |
| 2 | **write down** | past |  | the old recollections |  | song and legend |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent recollection=Theme in song=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | the old woman |  | the wood |  | near stupidity | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme near she=Destination |
| 4 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | the travelling peddler |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the travelling peddler *not said here* |  |  | the country |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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