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title: The elder brother was not yet in bed; he was standing at the window… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The elder brother was not yet in bed; he was standing at the window looking out at the mist which rose from the meadows. Who acts: elder brother, truth, mist. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 21

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The elder brother was not yet in bed; he was standing at the window looking out at the mist which rose from the meadows.

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**Who acts:** elder brother, truth, mist · **What happens:** not be, stand, look out, rise · **To what, where:** bed, window, mist, meadows

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, truth, mist), 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:pg27200:199:21
# text = The elder brother was not yet in bed; he was standing at the window looking out at the mist which rose from the meadows.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the elder brother |  |  | bed | yet |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | truth | bed *not said here* |  | the window |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme at window=Destination |
| 3 | **look out** | gerund | truth *not said here* |  |  | the mist |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rise** | past | the mist |  |  | the meadows |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from meadow=Initial\_Location |

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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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