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title: Close to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty, stoo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Close to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty, stood an exceedingly tall, narrow house, which had been so knocked about by time that it seemed out of joint in every direction. Who acts: it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 1

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Close to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty, stood an exceedingly tall, narrow house, which had been so knocked about by time that it seemed out of joint in every direction.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** stand, knock about, seem · **To what, where:** tall narrow house, time, joint

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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:pg27200:13:1
# text = Close to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty, stood an exceedingly tall, narrow house, which had been so knocked about by time that it seemed out of joint in every direction.
1	Close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	abodes	abode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a tall narrow house |  |  |  | to the corner of a street and other abodes of poverty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 2 | **knock about** | past · perfect · passive |  | a tall narrow house |  |  | time | about *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it | time *not said here* |  | joint |  | in every direction | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute |

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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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