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title: He was looking into the housekeeper's room on the lower storey; wher… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was looking into the housekeeper's room on the lower storey; where the stove stood on its four iron legs, looking about the same size as the Snow Man himself. " Who acts: Man, stove. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 84

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He was looking into the housekeeper's room on the lower storey; where the stove stood on its four iron legs, looking about the same size as the Snow Man himself. "

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**Who acts:** Man, stove · **What happens:** look, stand · **To what, where:** four iron legs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, stove), 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:pg27200:169:84
# text = He was looking into the housekeeper's room on the lower storey; where the stove stood on its four iron legs, looking about the same size as the Snow Man himself. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | Man |  |  |  |  | on the lower storey; into the housekeeper's room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into room=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the stove |  |  | stove's four iron legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the stove *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the same size; as the Snow Man  Man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about size=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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