--- title: It was not the house in which Goethe was born, nor the old Council H… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was not the house in which Goethe was born, nor the old Council House, through whose grated windows peered the horns of the oxen that were roasted and given to the people when the emperors were crowned. Who acts: building, grated windows. 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C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (building, grated windows), 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:pg27200:115:3 # text = It was not the house in which Goethe was born, nor the old Council House, through whose grated windows peered the horns of the oxen that were roasted and given to the people when the emperors were crowned. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 8 Goethe Goethe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 through through SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 grated grate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 peered peer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 roasted roast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 when when SCONJ WRB _ 40 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 emperors emperor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 crowned crown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | past | building | the house | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | past · passive | | Goethe | | the house | | the old Council House *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **grate** | participle | | | | | | | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **peer** | past | grated windows | the horns of the oxen | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **roast** | past · passive | | the oxen | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **give** | participle | | | the people | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | | 7 | **crown** | past · passive | | the emperors | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/4/) - ↑ back to [Twenty-fourth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/)