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title: The old clerks of Hauschen Street very seldom met together; each one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old clerks of Hauschen Street very seldom met together; each one remained in his own booth, which was closed early enough in the evening, and then it looked dark and dismal out in the street. Who acts: old clerks, town. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 35

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The old clerks of Hauschen Street very seldom met together; each one remained in his own booth, which was closed early enough in the evening, and then it looked dark and dismal out in the street.

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**Who acts:** old clerks, town · **What happens:** meet, remain, close, look out · **To what, where:** one, own booth, 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 (old clerks, town), 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:pg27200:128:35
# text = The old clerks of Hauschen Street very seldom met together; each one remained in his own booth, which was closed early enough in the evening, and then it looked dark and dismal out in the street.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clerks	clerk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | participle | the old clerks of Hauschen Street |  |  |  |  | seldom, together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | participle |  | each one *not said here* |  | Anthony's own booth |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in booth=Location |
| 3 | **close** | past · passive |  | each one |  |  | evening | early *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **look out** | past | town |  |  | the street | then | dark *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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**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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