--- title: Inside these walls the ropemaker twisted his ropes along a walk buil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Inside these walls the ropemaker twisted his ropes along a walk built like a gallery, and in the cracks and crevices of the walls elderbushes grow and stretch their green boughs over the small houses which stand below. Who acts: ropemaker, small houses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/) / 64 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 64 Inside these walls the ropemaker twisted his ropes along a walk built like a gallery, and in the cracks and crevices of the walls elderbushes grow and stretch their green boughs over the small houses which stand below. **Who acts:** ropemaker, small houses · **What happens:** twist, build, grow, stretch, stand · **To what, where:** ropes, walls, walk, cracks, green boughs, small houses 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 (ropemaker, small houses), 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:pg27200:203:64 # text = Inside these walls the ropemaker twisted his ropes along a walk built like a gallery, and in the cracks and crevices of the walls elderbushes grow and stretch their green boughs over the small houses which stand below. 1 Inside inside ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ropemaker ropemaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 twisted twist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 along along ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 gallery gallery NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cracks crack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 crevices crevice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 26 elderbushes elderbush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 27 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 below below ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twist** | past | the ropemaker | ropemaker's ropes | | this walls | | along a walk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent rope=Theme inside wall=Source along walk=Trajectory | | 2 | **build** | participle | | a walk *not said here* | | | | like a gallery | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **grow** | present | | | | the cracks of the walls and elderbushes and crevices | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crack=Location | | 4 | **stretch** | present | | walls's green boughs | | the small houses | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bough=Patient | | 5 | **stand** | present | the small houses | | | | | below *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/65/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)