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title: In one of these houses lived the master for whom Knud worked; and ov… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of these houses lived the master for whom Knud worked; and over the little garret window where he sat, the elder-tree waved its branches. Who acts: houses, Knud, elder tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 65

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In one of these houses lived the master for whom Knud worked; and over the little garret window where he sat, the elder-tree waved its branches.

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**Who acts:** houses, Knud, elder tree · **What happens:** live, work, sit, wave · **To what, where:** master, little garret window, branches

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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 (houses, Knud, elder tree), 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:pg27200:203:65
# text = In one of these houses lived the master for whom Knud worked; and over the little garret window where he sat, the elder-tree waved its branches.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	_
11	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | this houses | the master |  | the little garret window |  | in one | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme master=Location |
| 2 | **work** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wave** | past | the elder tree | tree's branches |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |

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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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