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title: The house, with its pointed gable, narrow windows, overhanging walls… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The house, with its pointed gable, narrow windows, overhanging walls and stories, projecting one beyond another, looked just the same as in former times. Who acts: narrow windows, house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 22

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The house, with its pointed gable, narrow windows, overhanging walls and stories, projecting one beyond another, looked just the same as in former times.

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**Who acts:** narrow windows, house · **What happens:** overhang, project, look · **To what, where:** walls, one, another

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (narrow windows, house), 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:pg27200:129:22
# text = The house, with its pointed gable, narrow windows, overhanging walls and stories, projecting one beyond another, looked just the same as in former times.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gable	gable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	projecting	project	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overhang** | gerund | narrow windows *not said here* | walls and stories |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **project** | gerund | narrow windows *not said here* | one |  | another |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme beyond another=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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