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title: Now after a while the parents decided to place these two boxes acros… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now after a while the parents decided to place these two boxes across the water-pipe, so that they reached from one window to the other and looked like two banks of flowers. Who acts: parents. 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 7

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Now after a while the parents decided to place these two boxes across the water-pipe, so that they reached from one window to the other and looked like two banks of flowers.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** decide, reach, look · **To what, where:** place, water pipe, one window

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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), 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:pg27200:171:7
# text = Now after a while the parents decided to place these two boxes across the water-pipe, so that they reached from one window to the other and looked like two banks of flowers.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | the parents | place |  | the water pipe | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | parents *= parent* |  |  | one window |  | to the other | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like two banks of flowers | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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