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title: Then his opposite neighbor stepped over to the house in which old An… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then his opposite neighbor stepped over to the house in which old Anthony lived, for he had not yet showed himself. Who acts: opposite neighbor, old Anthony, Anthony. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 210

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Then his opposite neighbor stepped over to the house in which old Anthony lived, for he had not yet showed himself.

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**Who acts:** opposite neighbor, old Anthony, Anthony · **What happens:** step over, live, not show · **To what, where:** house, tree

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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 (opposite neighbor, old Anthony, Anthony), 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:pg27200:128:210
# text = Then his opposite neighbor stepped over to the house in which old Anthony lived, for he had not yet showed himself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step over** | past | tree's opposite neighbor |  |  | the house | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination |
| 2 | **live** | past | old Anthony |  |  | the house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **not** **show** | past | Anthony | tree |  |  | yet |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |

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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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