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title: How the street must have looked when the houses had all gable roofs,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How the street must have looked when the houses had all gable roofs, open staircases, and gutters with dragons at the spout. Who acts: houses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 16

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How the street must have looked when the houses had all gable roofs, open staircases, and gutters with dragons at the spout.

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**Who acts:** houses · **What happens:** look, have · **To what, where:** street, gable roofs, spout

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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 (houses), 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:pg27200:131:16
# text = How the street must have looked when the houses had all gable roofs, open staircases, and gutters with dragons at the spout.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	gable	gable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	staircases	staircase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gutters	gutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spout	spout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | must · perfect · passive |  | the street |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | past | the houses | all gable roofs and open staircases and gutters with dragons |  | the spout |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient |

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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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