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title: The chimneys rose like flower-pots ranged side by side, or in rows o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The chimneys rose like flower-pots ranged side by side, or in rows one above the other, on the roofs. Who acts: chimneys, flower pots. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 22

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The chimneys rose like flower-pots ranged side by side, or in rows one above the other, on the roofs.

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**Who acts:** chimneys, flower pots · **What happens:** rise, range · **To what, where:** rows, side

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (chimneys, flower pots), 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:pg27200:25:22
# text = The chimneys rose like flower-pots ranged side by side, or in rows one above the other, on the roofs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the chimneys |  |  | rows |  | like flower pots; on the roofs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location |
| 2 | **range** | participle | flower pots *not said here* | side |  |  |  | by side | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location side=Theme |

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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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