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title: The old house was still standing as in olden times, but the garden h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old house was still standing as in olden times, but the garden had been greatly altered; a pathway led through a portion of the ground, and outside the garden, and beyond the path, stood the old apple-tree, which he had not broken down, although he talked of doing so in his trouble. Who acts: ol
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 164

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The old house was still standing as in olden times, but the garden had been greatly altered; a pathway led through a portion of the ground, and outside the garden, and beyond the path, stood the old apple-tree, which he had not broken down, although he talked of doing so in his trouble.

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**Who acts:** old house, tree · **What happens:** stand, alter, lead, not break down, talk, do · **To what, where:** pathway, garden, portion, old apple tree, path, trouble

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old house, tree), 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:pg27200:128:164
# text = The old house was still standing as in olden times, but the garden had been greatly altered; a pathway led through a portion of the ground, and outside the garden, and beyond the path, stood the old apple-tree, which he had not broken down, although he talked of doing so in his trouble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
22	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
52	down	down	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
57	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
58	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
59	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | the old house | a pathway and the garden |  |  | still; time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **alter** | past · perfect · passive |  | the garden |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | a pathway and the garden *not said here* |  | a portion of the ground |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through portion=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  | the old apple tree |  | the path |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme beyond path=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **break down** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **talk** | past | tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **do** | gerund | tree *not said here* |  |  | tree's trouble |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **trouble** |  | tree |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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