--- title: He found the house that he sought easily, but had to mount so many s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He found the house that he sought easily, but had to mount so many stairs that he became quite giddy; it surprised him to find how people lived over one another in this dreadful town. Who acts: nearer, many stairs, house, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (nearer, many stairs, house, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:202:68 # text = He found the house that he sought easily, but had to mount so many stairs that he became quite giddy; it surprised him to find how people lived over one another in this dreadful town. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 easily easily ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 mount mount VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 giddy giddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 surprised surprise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 33 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 32 fixed _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | nearer *= near* | the house | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | | 2 | **seek** | past | nearer *= near* | | | | | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | nearer *= near* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mount** | to-infinitive | nearer *= near* *not said here* | many stairs | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient | | 5 | **become** | past | many stairs | | | | | giddy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **surprise** | past | house | nearer *= near* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | house *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **live** | past | people | | | this dreadful town | | over one | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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