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title: It must be owned that there are in the outskirts of the town some hu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It must be owned that there are in the outskirts of the town some humble gardens on the banks of a little stream that runs on towards the sea, and in summer these gardens look very pretty. Who acts: little stream, gardens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Und
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 4

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It must be owned that there are in the outskirts of the town some humble gardens on the banks of a little stream that runs on towards the sea, and in summer these gardens look very pretty.

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**Who acts:** little stream, gardens · **What happens:** own, be, run, look · **To what, where:** spot, outskirts, sea

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little stream, gardens), 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:pg27200:202:4
# text = It must be owned that there are in the outskirts of the town some humble gardens on the banks of a little stream that runs on towards the sea, and in summer these gardens look very pretty.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | must · passive |  | spot |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  | the outskirts of the town; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in outskirt=Location |
| 3 | **run** | present | a little stream |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory |
| 4 | **look** | present | this gardens |  |  |  | summer | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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