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title: On the window seat stood two curious flower-pots which a sailor, nam… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the window seat stood two curious flower-pots which a sailor, named Christian, had brought over from the East or West Indies. Who acts: two curious flower pots. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 83

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On the window seat stood two curious flower-pots which a sailor, named Christian, had brought over from the East or West Indies.

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**Who acts:** two curious flower pots · **What happens:** stand, sailor, name, bring over · **To what, where:** window seat, sailor, East

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two curious flower pots), 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:pg27200:133:83
# text = On the window seat stood two curious flower-pots which a sailor, named Christian, had brought over from the East or West Indies.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
7	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | the window seat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location |
| 2 | **sailor** |  | two curious flower pots |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | a sailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring over** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the East or West Indies |  | over *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from east=Initial\_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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