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title: Here, in the market-place, stood Knud, with his knapsack on his back… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, in the market-place, stood Knud, with his knapsack on his back, close to one of the old fountains which are so beautifully adorned with figures, scriptural and historical, and which spring up between the sparkling jets of water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 57

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Here, in the market-place, stood Knud, with his knapsack on his back, close to one of the old fountains which are so beautifully adorned with figures, scriptural and historical, and which spring up between the sparkling jets of water.

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**What happens:** stand, adorn, spring up · **To what, where:** Knud, market place, old fountains, sparkling jets

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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: 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:pg27200:203:57
# text = Here, in the market-place, stood Knud, with his knapsack on his back, close to one of the old fountains which are so beautifully adorned with figures, scriptural and historical, and which spring up between the sparkling jets of water.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	scriptural	scriptural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	between	between	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	jets	jet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Knud |  | the market place; here |  | with Knud's knapsack on Knud's back | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knud=Theme in place=Destination |
| 2 | **adorn** | present · passive |  | the old fountains |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **spring up** | present |  |  |  | the sparkling jets of water |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between jet=Location |

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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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