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title: In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 2

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In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stand, pass by, see · **To what, where:** farmhouse, country

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:20:2
# text = In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a farmhouse |  | the country |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Theme in country=Destination |
| 2 | **pass by** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | participle | you *not said here* | farmhouse |  |  |  |  | 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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