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title: "There are the good people below, playing at 'changing houses.' — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "There are the good people below, playing at 'changing houses.' Who acts: good people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 25

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"There are the good people below, playing at 'changing houses.'

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**Who acts:** good people · **What happens:** be, play, change · **To what, where:** houses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good people), 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:pg27200:138:25
# text = "There are the good people below, playing at 'changing houses.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
7	below	below	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | the good people |  |  | there |  | below *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** *in a quote* | gerund |  | houses |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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