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title: There, where once had stood the narrow lane containing the ruins of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There, where once had stood the narrow lane containing the ruins of the temple, a nunnery was now built. Who acts: narrow lane. 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 245

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There, where once had stood the narrow lane containing the ruins of the temple, a nunnery was now built.

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**Who acts:** narrow lane · **What happens:** stand, contain, build, ruin · **To what, where:** narrow lane, ruins, nunnery, temple

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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: who acts (narrow lane), 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:pg27200:151:245
# text = There, where once had stood the narrow lane containing the ruins of the temple, a nunnery was now built.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nunnery	nunnery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · perfect |  | the narrow lane |  | there |  | once *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lane=Stimulus |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | the narrow lane *not said here* | the ruins of the temple |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ruin=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive |  | a nunnery |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **ruin** |  |  | the temple |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=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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