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title: But every evening after working hours--and they worked by candle-lig… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But every evening after working hours--and they worked by candle-light then--he walked out into the town, and through the street in which Joanna lived, to look up at her window. Who acts: tears, father, Joanna. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 91

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But every evening after working hours--and they worked by candle-light then--he walked out into the town, and through the street in which Joanna lived, to look up at her window.

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**Who acts:** tears, father, Joanna · **What happens:** work, walk out, live, look up · **To what, where:** town, street

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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 (tears, father, Joanna), 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:pg27200:202:91
# text = But every evening after working hours--and they worked by candle-light then--he walked out into the town, and through the street in which Joanna lived, to look up at her window.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | past | tears *= tear* |  |  |  |  | by candle light | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk out** | past | father |  |  | the town | then; evening | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** | past | Joanna |  |  | the street |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 5 | **look up** | to-infinitive | Joanna *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Joanna's window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme |

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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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