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title: From the street could be seen the room in which the walls were cover… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: From the street could be seen the room in which the walls were covered with leather, ragged and torn, and the green in the balcony hung straggling over the beams; they pulled it down quickly, for it looked ready to fall, and at last it was cleared away altogether. " Who acts: green, walls, leather. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 120

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From the street could be seen the room in which the walls were covered with leather, ragged and torn, and the green in the balcony hung straggling over the beams; they pulled it down quickly, for it looked ready to fall, and at last it was cleared away altogether. "

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**Who acts:** green, walls, leather · **What happens:** see, cover, rag, tear, hang, straggle · **To what, where:** room, street, walls, beams, leather, last

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green, walls, leather), 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:pg27200:131:120
# text = From the street could be seen the room in which the walls were covered with leather, ragged and torn, and the green in the balcony hung straggling over the beams; they pulled it down quickly, for it looked ready to fall, and at last it was cleared away altogether. "
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ragged	rag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	straggling	straggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	obl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
53	away	away	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could · passive |  | the room |  | the street |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: room=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the walls |  |  |  | with leather; in the room | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in which=Theme |
| 3 | **rag** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** | past | the green |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **straggle** | gerund | the green *not said here* |  |  | the beams |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over beam=Location |
| 7 | **pull down** | past | walls *= wall* | leather |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **look** | past | leather |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **fall** | to-infinitive | leather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **clear away** | past · passive |  | leather |  | last |  | altogether, away *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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