---
title: At the window of one of them sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the window of one of them sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks, and clear sparkling eyes, who was very fond of the old house, in sunshine or in moonlight. Who acts: one, clear sparkling eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its depe
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Old House](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/) / 14

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At the window of one of them sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks, and clear sparkling eyes, who was very fond of the old house, in sunshine or in moonlight.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** one, clear sparkling eyes · **What happens:** sit, be · **To what, where:** little boy, window

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (one, clear sparkling eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:131:14
# text = At the window of one of them sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks, and clear sparkling eyes, who was very fond of the old house, in sunshine or in moonlight.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	sparkling	sparkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | one of windows | a little boy |  | the window |  | with fresh rosy cheeks; clear sparkling eyes *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme at window=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | clear sparkling eyes |  |  |  |  | of the old house; fond *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/15/)
- ↑ back to [The Old House](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/)