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title: To Egypt, where we shall see three-cornered houses built of stone, w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: To Egypt, where we shall see three-cornered houses built of stone, with pointed tops that reach nearly to the clouds. Who acts: we, pointed tops. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 28

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To Egypt, where we shall see three-cornered houses built of stone, with pointed tops that reach nearly to the clouds.

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**Who acts:** we, pointed tops · **What happens:** see, corner, build, reach · **To what, where:** cornered houses, Egypt

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, pointed tops), 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:pg27200:183:28
# text = To Egypt, where we shall see three-cornered houses built of stone, with pointed tops that reach nearly to the clouds.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cornered	corner	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | shall | we | cornered houses | Egypt |  |  | with pointed tops | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 2 | **corner** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  | cornered houses *not said here* |  |  |  | of stone | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **reach** | present | pointed tops |  |  |  |  | to the clouds | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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