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title: The parapet projects so far forward that no one can see out of our w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The parapet projects so far forward that no one can see out of our windows what is going on in that direction. Who acts: parapet, one. 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 9

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The parapet projects so far forward that no one can see out of our windows what is going on in that direction.

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**Who acts:** parapet, one · **What happens:** project, see out, go on · **To what, where:** windows, direction · **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 (parapet, one), 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:pg27200:131:9
# text = The parapet projects so far forward that no one can see out of our windows what is going on in that direction.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parapet	parapet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	projects	project	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **project** | present | the parapet |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see out** | can | no one | our windows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | present · progressive |  |  |  | that direction |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |

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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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