--- title: Gables, with little towers, ornamented columns, and statues, can be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Gables, with little towers, ornamented columns, and statues, can be seen even to the city gate; and from the singular-shaped roofs, waterspouts, formed like dragons, or long lean dogs, extend far across to the middle of the street. Who acts: Gables. 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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 (Gables), 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:pg27200:203:56 # text = Gables, with little towers, ornamented columns, and statues, can be seen even to the city gate; and from the singular-shaped roofs, waterspouts, formed like dragons, or long lean dogs, extend far across to the middle of the street. 1 Gables gable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 ornamented ornament VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 columns column NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 singular singular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 waterspouts waterspout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 lean lean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 41 extend extend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 42 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 43 across across ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ornament** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | can · passive | Gables and little towers and ornamented columns and the shaped roofs and waterspouts *not said here* | statues | | | | to the city gate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **form** | participle | | the shaped roofs and waterspouts *not said here* | | | | like dragons or long lean dogs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **extend** | present | Gables and little towers and ornamented columns and the shaped roofs and waterspouts | | the middle of the street | | | across *property* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to middle=Recipient | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/57/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)