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title: There was a large house painted in many gay colours standing close t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a large house painted in many gay colours standing close to the castle and the canal, upon which latter were to be seen many ships laden with apples and pottery. Who acts: large house, many gay colours, many ships. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 173

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There was a large house painted in many gay colours standing close to the castle and the canal, upon which latter were to be seen many ships laden with apples and pottery.

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**Who acts:** large house, many gay colours, many ships · **What happens:** be, paint, stand, see, laden · **To what, where:** large house, many gay colours

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large house, many gay colours, many ships), 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:pg27200:124:173
# text = There was a large house painted in many gay colours standing close to the castle and the canal, upon which latter were to be seen many ships laden with apples and pottery.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	latter	latte	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	laden	laden	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a large house |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  | a large house *not said here* |  | many gay colours |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in colour=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | many gay colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the castle and the canal; close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | latte *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **laden** | present | many ships |  |  |  |  | with apples and pottery | 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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