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title: It was easy to see that this church had been built entirely of wood,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was easy to see that this church had been built entirely of wood, hewn out and wonderfully put together; every story looked as if it had rockers, like a cradle. Who acts: church. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 108

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It was easy to see that this church had been built entirely of wood, hewn out and wonderfully put together; every story looked as if it had rockers, like a cradle.

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**Who acts:** church · **What happens:** be, see, build, hewn out, put together, look · **To what, where:** church, wood, story, rockers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church), 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:pg27200:146:108
# text = It was easy to see that this church had been built entirely of wood, hewn out and wonderfully put together; every story looked as if it had rockers, like a cradle.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	hewn	hewn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	rockers	rocker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | this church |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product |
| 4 | **hewn out** | participle |  | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put together** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | together, wonderfully *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **look** | participle |  | every story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** | past | church | rockers and a cradle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocker=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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