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title: The streets seem to have arranged themselves according to their own… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The streets seem to have arranged themselves according to their own fancy, and as if the houses objected to stand in rows or rank and file. Who acts: streets, houses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 55

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The streets seem to have arranged themselves according to their own fancy, and as if the houses objected to stand in rows or rank and file.

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**Who acts:** streets, houses · **What happens:** seem, arrange, accord, object, stand, fancy · **To what, where:** streets, rows

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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 (streets, houses), 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:pg27200:203:55
# text = The streets seem to have arranged themselves according to their own fancy, and as if the houses objected to stand in rows or rank and file.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	objected	object	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the streets |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **arrange** | to-infinitive · perfect | the streets *not said here* | streets *= street* |  |  |  | accord streets's own fancy | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **object** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the houses |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **stand** | to-infinitive | the houses *not said here* |  |  | rows or rank and file |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location |
| 6 | **fancy** |  | streets *= street* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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