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title: The old house, with its balcony of wickerwork, and the bench at the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The old house, with its balcony of wickerwork, and the bench at the top of the high steps, under the lime-tree, was considered, by the road-inspectors, too old and rotten to be left standing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 34

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The old house, with its balcony of wickerwork, and the bench at the top of the high steps, under the lime-tree, was considered, by the road-inspectors, too old and rotten to be left standing.

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**What happens:** consider, leave, stand · **To what, where:** old house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:130:34
# text = The old house, with its balcony of wickerwork, and the bench at the top of the high steps, under the lime-tree, was considered, by the road-inspectors, too old and rotten to be left standing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wickerwork	wickerwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	inspectors	inspector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	advcl	_	_
44	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · passive |  | the old house and the bench at the top of the high steps and the lime tree |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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