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title: Often, when it was dark night outside, with rain or snow falling, th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Often, when it was dark night outside, with rain or snow falling, the place looked quite deserted and gloomy. Who acts: stranger, rain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 39

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Often, when it was dark night outside, with rain or snow falling, the place looked quite deserted and gloomy.

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**Who acts:** stranger, rain · **What happens:** be, fall, desert · **To what, where:** dark night, place

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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 (stranger, rain), 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:pg27200:128:39
# text = Often, when it was dark night outside, with rain or snow falling, the place looked quite deserted and gloomy.
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | stranger | dark night and rain or snow |  |  |  | often, outside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | rain or snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **desert** | past · passive |  | the place |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Source |

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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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