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title: Steeples and roofs lay far, far beneath it, and the people looked as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Steeples and roofs lay far, far beneath it, and the people looked as tiny as possible. Who acts: Steeples, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 134

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Steeples and roofs lay far, far beneath it, and the people looked as tiny as possible.

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**Who acts:** Steeples, people · **What happens:** lay, look · **To what, where:** roof

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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 (Steeples, people), 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:pg27200:13:134
# text = Steeples and roofs lay far, far beneath it, and the people looked as tiny as possible.
1	Steeples	steeple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | Steeples and roofs |  |  | roof |  | far *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath it=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | tiny *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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