--- title: They stopped at a little hut; it was very mean looking; the roof slo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They stopped at a little hut; it was very mean looking; the roof sloped nearly down to the ground, and the door was so low that the family had to creep in on their hands and knees, when they went in and out. Who acts: They, hut, roof, door. 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C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, hut, roof, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:175:1 # text = They stopped at a little hut; it was very mean looking; the roof sloped nearly down to the ground, and the door was so low that the family had to creep in on their hands and knees, when they went in and out. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 compound _ _ 12 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sloped slope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 34 obl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 45 in in ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 out out ADV RB _ 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | They | | | a little hut | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hut=Location | | 2 | **look** | past · progressive | hut | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **slope** | past | the roof | | | | | to the ground; down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the door | | | | | low *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | the family | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **creep in** | to-infinitive | the family *not said here* | | | their hands and knees | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory | | 7 | **go** | past | knees *= knee* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Little Robber-girl, 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/78/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/2/) - ↑ back to [The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/)