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title: In the farmhouse lived a young married couple; they loved each other… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the farmhouse lived a young married couple; they loved each other dearly, were industrious and active, and everything in their home looked very nice. Who acts: farmhouse, birds, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 58

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In the farmhouse lived a young married couple; they loved each other dearly, were industrious and active, and everything in their home looked very nice.

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**Who acts:** farmhouse, birds, everything · **What happens:** live, love, be, look · **To what, where:** young married couple, each

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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 (farmhouse, birds, everything), 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:pg27200:124:58
# text = In the farmhouse lived a young married couple; they loved each other dearly, were industrious and active, and everything in their home looked very nice.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obj	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the farmhouse | a young married couple |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=Location |
| 2 | **love** | past | birds *= bird* | each |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | birds *= bird* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | industrious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | birds *= bird* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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