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title: Their parents lived opposite to each other in two garrets, where the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Their parents lived opposite to each other in two garrets, where the roofs of neighboring houses projected out towards each other and the water-pipe ran between them. Who acts: parents, roofs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 4

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Their parents lived opposite to each other in two garrets, where the roofs of neighboring houses projected out towards each other and the water-pipe ran between them.

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**Who acts:** parents, roofs · **What happens:** live, neighbor, project out, run · **To what, where:** opposite, two garrets, neighboring houses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, roofs), 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:pg27200:171:4
# text = Their parents lived opposite to each other in two garrets, where the roofs of neighboring houses projected out towards each other and the water-pipe ran between them.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	garrets	garret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	projected	project	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	18	obl	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
28	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | children's parents | opposite |  | two garrets |  | to each | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme opposite=Location |
| 2 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **project out** | participle |  | neighboring houses and the water pipe *not said here* |  |  |  | towards each | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | the roofs of neighboring houses and the water pipe |  |  |  |  | between children *= child* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory |

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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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