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title: The Dryad asked herself if these high-grown houses, which stood so c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dryad asked herself if these high-grown houses, which stood so close around her, would not remove and take other shapes, like the clouds in the sky, and draw aside, so that she might cast a glance into Paris, and over it. Who acts: Dryad, crowd. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 46

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The Dryad asked herself if these high-grown houses, which stood so close around her, would not remove and take other shapes, like the clouds in the sky, and draw aside, so that she might cast a glance into Paris, and over it.

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**Who acts:** Dryad, crowd · **What happens:** ask, grow, stand, not remove, take, draw · **To what, where:** crowd, glance, grown houses, other shapes, Paris

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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 (Dryad, crowd), 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:pg27200:25:46
# text = The Dryad asked herself if these high-grown houses, which stood so close around her, would not remove and take other shapes, like the clouds in the sky, and draw aside, so that she might cast a glance into Paris, and over it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
36	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	42	mark	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Dryad | crowd |  | glance |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past |  | this grown houses |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **remove** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive |  | other shapes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 6 | **draw** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **cast** | might | crowd | a glance |  | Paris |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent glance=Material into paris=Product |

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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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