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title: The high houses around had all of them balconies to the windows, fro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The high houses around had all of them balconies to the windows, from which the inhabitants looked down upon the young fresh chestnut tree, which was coming to be planted here as a substitute for the dead tree that lay stretched on the ground. Who acts: high houses, all, inhabitants, young fresh che
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 28

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The high houses around had all of them balconies to the windows, from which the inhabitants looked down upon the young fresh chestnut tree, which was coming to be planted here as a substitute for the dead tree that lay stretched on the ground.

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**Who acts:** high houses, all, inhabitants, young fresh chestnut tree · **What happens:** have, balcony, look down, come, plant, stretch · **To what, where:** dead tree, ground

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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 (high houses, all, inhabitants, young fresh chestnut 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:pg27200:25:28
# text = The high houses around had all of them balconies to the windows, from which the inhabitants looked down upon the young fresh chestnut tree, which was coming to be planted here as a substitute for the dead tree that lay stretched on the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	balconies	balcony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	substitute	substitute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the high houses |  |  |  |  | to the windows; around *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **balcony** |  | all |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look down** | past | the inhabitants |  |  |  |  | upon the young fresh chestnut tree; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from which=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past · progressive | the young fresh chestnut tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **plant** | to-infinitive · passive | the young fresh chestnut tree *not said here* |  |  | here |  | as a substitute; for the dead tree | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **stretch** | past · passive |  | the dead tree |  | the ground |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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