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title: In the farm-house lived two young students; the one was a poet and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the farm-house lived two young students; the one was a poet and the other a scientific searcher into the secrets of nature. Who acts: one, other. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 118

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In the farm-house lived two young students; the one was a poet and the other a scientific searcher into the secrets of nature.

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**Who acts:** one, other · **What happens:** live, be, searcher · **To what, where:** two young students, farm house, poet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, other), 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:pg27200:194:118
# text = In the farm-house lived two young students; the one was a poet and the other a scientific searcher into the secrets of nature.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	searcher	searcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | two young students |  | the farm house |  | into the secrets of nature | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme student=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the one | a poet and a scientific searcher |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **searcher** |  | the other |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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