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title: In an out-of-the-way suburb of Rome lay a tavern much visited by art… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In an out-of-the-way suburb of Rome lay a tavern much visited by artists. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 115

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In an out-of-the-way suburb of Rome lay a tavern much visited by artists.

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**What happens:** lay, visit · **To what, where:** tavern, way suburb

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:151:115
# text = In an out-of-the-way suburb of Rome lay a tavern much visited by artists.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present |  | a tavern |  | a way suburb |  | of Rome | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tavern=Theme in suburb=Destination |
| 2 | **visit** | participle |  | a tavern *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «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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