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title: Here stood the simple straw-thatched dwelling of the Danish peasant,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here stood the simple straw-thatched dwelling of the Danish peasant, with the Dannebrog flag, next to Gustavus Vasa's wooden house from Dalarne, with its wonderful carvings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 105

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Here stood the simple straw-thatched dwelling of the Danish peasant, with the Dannebrog flag, next to Gustavus Vasa's wooden house from Dalarne, with its wonderful carvings.

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**What happens:** stand, thatch · **To what, where:** simple thatched dwelling

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. 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:pg27200:24:105
# text = Here stood the simple straw-thatched dwelling of the Danish peasant, with the Dannebrog flag, next to Gustavus Vasa's wooden house from Dalarne, with its wonderful carvings.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Dannebrog	Dannebrog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	next	next	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	Gustavus	Gustavus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Vasa	Vasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Dalarne	Dalarne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	carvings	carving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the simple thatched dwelling of the Danish peasant |  | here |  | with the Dannebrog flag; to Gustavus Vasa's wooden house from Dalarne | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwelling=Stimulus |
| 2 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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