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title: For full twenty years it stood in the loft, and it might have stayed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For full twenty years it stood in the loft, and it might have stayed there longer but that the house was going to be rebuilt. Who acts: letter, house. 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 claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 89

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For full twenty years it stood in the loft, and it might have stayed there longer but that the house was going to be rebuilt.

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**Who acts:** letter, house · **What happens:** stand, stay, go, rebuild · **To what, where:** loft, letter

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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 (letter, 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:pg27200:13:89
# text = For full twenty years it stood in the loft, and it might have stayed there longer but that the house was going to be rebuilt.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | letter |  |  | the loft | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in loft=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | might · perfect · passive |  | letter |  |  |  | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | the house |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **rebuild** | to-infinitive · passive | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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