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title: It was a real sorrow to her when she had to leave the little lane be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a real sorrow to her when she had to leave the little lane behind the playhouse, and move into the great street that lay a little farther off, and live there in a house where she had no opposite neighbors. Who acts: theatre, stork, great street. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 18

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It was a real sorrow to her when she had to leave the little lane behind the playhouse, and move into the great street that lay a little farther off, and live there in a house where she had no opposite neighbors.

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**Who acts:** theatre, stork, great street · **What happens:** be, have, leave, move, lie, live · **To what, where:** real sorrow, little lane, playhouse, great street, house, opposite neighbors

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (theatre, stork, great street), 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:pg27200:139:18
# text = It was a real sorrow to her when she had to leave the little lane behind the playhouse, and move into the great street that lay a little farther off, and live there in a house where she had no opposite neighbors.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	playhouse	playhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	_
30	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
43	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | theatre | a real sorrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | stork |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | stork *not said here* | the little lane |  | the playhouse |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lane=Theme behind playhouse=Location |
| 4 | **move** | infinitive |  |  |  | the great street |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into street=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lie** | past | the great street |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  | a house; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 7 | **have** | past | stork | no opposite neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=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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