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title: In olden times, Hauschen Street was not paved, and passengers would… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In olden times, Hauschen Street was not paved, and passengers would stumble out of one hole into another, as they generally do in unfrequented highways; and the street was so narrow, and the booths leaning against each other were so close together, that in the summer time a sail would be stretched a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 21

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In olden times, Hauschen Street was not paved, and passengers would stumble out of one hole into another, as they generally do in unfrequented highways; and the street was so narrow, and the booths leaning against each other were so close together, that in the summer time a sail would be stretched across the street from one booth to another opposite.

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**Who acts:** passengers, street, booths · **What happens:** not pave, stumble, do, be, lean, stretch · **To what, where:** Hauschen Street, one hole, unfrequented highways, each, sail, street

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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 (passengers, street, booths), 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:pg27200:128:21
# text = In olden times, Hauschen Street was not paved, and passengers would stumble out of one hole into another, as they generally do in unfrequented highways; and the street was so narrow, and the booths leaning against each other were so close together, that in the summer time a sail would be stretched across the street from one booth to another opposite.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	stumble	stumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	unfrequented	unfrequented	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
40	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
41	against	against	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	40	obl	_	_
43	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	fixed	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
47	together	together	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
59	across	across	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
62	from	from	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	64	nummod	_	_
64	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
65	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	67	det	_	_
67	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pave** | past · passive |  | Hauschen Street |  |  | time |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **stumble** | would | passengers |  |  | one hole into another |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hole=Trajectory |
| 3 | **do** | present | passengers *= passenger* |  |  | unfrequented highways |  | generally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the street |  |  |  |  | narrow *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lean** | gerund | the booths *not said here* |  |  | each |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against each=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | the booths |  |  |  |  | close, together *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **stretch** | would · passive |  | a sail |  | the street | time | from one booth to another opposite | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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