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title: Thus it happened that Anthony's neighbors, who lived opposite to him… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus it happened that Anthony's neighbors, who lived opposite to him, did not notice that his house remained unopened for two days, and that he had not showed himself during that time, for who would go out in such weather unless he were obliged to do so. Who acts: it, neighbors, house, neighbor. A s
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 178

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Thus it happened that Anthony's neighbors, who lived opposite to him, did not notice that his house remained unopened for two days, and that he had not showed himself during that time, for who would go out in such weather unless he were obliged to do so.

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**Who acts:** it, neighbors, house, neighbor · **What happens:** happen, live, not notice, remain, have, not show · **To what, where:** opposite, Anthony, neighbor, such weather · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (it, neighbors, house, neighbor), 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:pg27200:128:178
# text = Thus it happened that Anthony's neighbors, who lived opposite to him, did not notice that his house remained unopened for two days, and that he had not showed himself during that time, for who would go out in such weather unless he were obliged to do so.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	notice	notice	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	unopened	unopened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	during	during	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
42	out	out	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | Anthony's neighbors | opposite | Anthony |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme opposite=Location |
| 3 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **remain** | past | neighbor's house |  |  |  | day | unopened *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | neighbor |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **show** | past |  | neighbor |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
| 7 | **go out** | would |  |  |  | such weather |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **oblige** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | neighbor |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 9 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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