--- title: Here in this neighborhood, there lives a family of people who have b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Here in this neighborhood, there lives a family of people who have been so sensible as to place three or four flower-pots against the wall in the court-yard, so that the openings are all turned inward, and the bottom of each points outward. Who acts: people, bottom. 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C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bottom), 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:pg27200:214:25 # text = Here in this neighborhood, there lives a family of people who have been so sensible as to place three or four flower-pots against the wall in the court-yard, so that the openings are all turned inward, and the bottom of each points outward. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 neighborhood neighborhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 cop _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 23 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 26 against against ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 openings opening NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 40 all all ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 42 inward inward ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 46 nmod _ _ 49 points point VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 50 outward outward ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | | a family of people | | here; there | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location | | 2 | **is** | present · perfect | people | | | | | as place or four flower pots against the wall in the court yard; sensible *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | present · passive | | the openings | | | | all, inward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **point** | present | the bottom of each | | | | | outward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/26/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/)