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title: The names were painted up; and every house above had its number down… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The names were painted up; and every house above had its number down here also, and struck its roots under the macadamized quays of a broad canal, in which the muddy water flowed onward. Who acts: house, muddy water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 18

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The names were painted up; and every house above had its number down here also, and struck its roots under the macadamized quays of a broad canal, in which the muddy water flowed onward.

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**Who acts:** house, muddy water · **What happens:** paint up, have down, strike, macadamize, flow · **To what, where:** names, number, roots, macadamized quays

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, muddy water), 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:pg27200:26:18
# text = The names were painted up; and every house above had its number down here also, and struck its roots under the macadamized quays of a broad canal, in which the muddy water flowed onward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	above	above	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	macadamized	macadamize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	quays	quay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
37	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint up** | past · passive |  | the names |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **have down** | past | every house | house's number |  | here |  | above, down *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 3 | **strike** | past |  | house's roots |  | the macadamized quays of a broad canal |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 4 | **macadamize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **flow** | participle | the muddy water |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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