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title: But in the fisherman's cottage among the sand-hills near Hunsby, the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the fisherman's cottage among the sand-hills near Hunsby, there lived a little scion of the rich Spanish family. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 10

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But in the fisherman's cottage among the sand-hills near Hunsby, there lived a little scion of the rich Spanish family.

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**What happens:** live · **To what, where:** little scion, cottage

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. 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:pg27200:159:10
# text = But in the fisherman's cottage among the sand-hills near Hunsby, there lived a little scion of the rich Spanish family.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Hunsby	Hunsby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	scion	scion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a little scion of the rich Spanish family |  | the fisherman's cottage among the sand hills near Hunsby; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme scion=Location |

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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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