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title: This same horse stood in the courtyard, and had four poles for legs,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This same horse stood in the courtyard, and had four poles for legs, and a single narrow plant for a back; on this Jon had to ride astride, and some heavy bricks were fastened to his feet into the bargain, that he might not sit too comfortably. Who acts: same horse, Jon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 23

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This same horse stood in the courtyard, and had four poles for legs, and a single narrow plant for a back; on this Jon had to ride astride, and some heavy bricks were fastened to his feet into the bargain, that he might not sit too comfortably.

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**Who acts:** same horse, Jon · **What happens:** stand, have, ride, fasten, not sit · **To what, where:** courtyard, four poles, heavy bricks, bargain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same horse, Jon), 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:pg27200:149:23
# text = This same horse stood in the courtyard, and had four poles for legs, and a single narrow plant for a back; on this Jon had to ride astride, and some heavy bricks were fastened to his feet into the bargain, that he might not sit too comfortably.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	Jon	Jon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	astride	astride	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
35	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
51	too	too	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | this same horse |  |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | this same horse *not said here* | four poles |  |  |  | for legs; a single narrow plant for a back *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | this Jon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | to-infinitive | this Jon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | astride *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | some heavy bricks |  | the bargain |  | to Jon's feet | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to foot=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **not** **sit** | might | Jon |  |  |  |  | comfortably *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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