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title: As he went through the streets at a quick pace, he passed the house… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As he went through the streets at a quick pace, he passed the house where she used to live; it was all dark, empty, and lonely. Who acts: Knud, room, house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 48

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As he went through the streets at a quick pace, he passed the house where she used to live; it was all dark, empty, and lonely.

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**Who acts:** Knud, room, house · **What happens:** go, pass, use, live, be · **To what, where:** streets, house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, room, house), 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:pg27200:203:48
# text = As he went through the streets at a quick pace, he passed the house where she used to live; it was all dark, empty, and lonely.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Knud |  |  | the streets |  | at a quick pace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Knud | the house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory |
| 3 | **use** | past | room |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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