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title: She lived in the little house by the wayside, where the gate is that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She lived in the little house by the wayside, where the gate is that she opened for those who rode and drove. Who acts: doctor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 11

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She lived in the little house by the wayside, where the gate is that she opened for those who rode and drove.

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**Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** live, be, ride, drive · **To what, where:** little house, gate

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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:pg27200:206:11
# text = She lived in the little house by the wayside, where the gate is that she opened for those who rode and drove.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | doctor |  |  | the little house |  | by the wayside | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | doctor | the gate *not said here* |  |  |  | for the gate; open *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drive** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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