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title: Perhaps they thought, "How long will that heap of rubbish remain her… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps they thought, "How long will that heap of rubbish remain here to be a disgrace to the whole street. Who acts: walls, heap. 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 8

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Perhaps they thought, "How long will that heap of rubbish remain here to be a disgrace to the whole street.

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**Who acts:** walls, heap · **What happens:** think, remain, be · **To what, where:** disgrace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (walls, heap), 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:pg27200:131:8
# text = Perhaps they thought, "How long will that heap of rubbish remain here to be a disgrace to the whole street.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** *in a quote* | future | that heap of rubbish |  |  | here |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | that heap of rubbish *not said here* | a disgrace |  |  |  | to the whole street | tree rules |

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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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