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title: The other houses in the street were new and well built, with large w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The other houses in the street were new and well built, with large window panes and smooth walls. Who acts: other 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 6

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The other houses in the street were new and well built, with large window panes and smooth walls.

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**Who acts:** other houses · **What happens:** be, build

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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 (other 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:pg27200:131:6
# text = The other houses in the street were new and well built, with large window panes and smooth walls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the other houses in the street |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle | the other houses in the street *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with large window panes and smooth walls; well *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with pane=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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