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title: Part of this garden was laid out quite in the style of the old days,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Part of this garden was laid out quite in the style of the old days, with stiff green hedges; you walked as if between green walls with peep-holes in them. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 53

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Part of this garden was laid out quite in the style of the old days, with stiff green hedges; you walked as if between green walls with peep-holes in them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lay out, walk · **To what, where:** Part, style

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:147:53
# text = Part of this garden was laid out quite in the style of the old days, with stiff green hedges; you walked as if between green walls with peep-holes in them.
1	Part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay out** | past · passive |  | Part of this garden |  | the style of the old days |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in style=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | past | you |  |  |  |  | as green walls with peep holes in holes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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