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title: Far in the interior of the country lay an old baronial hall, and in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Far in the interior of the country lay an old baronial hall, and in it lived an old proprietor, who had two sons, which two young men thought themselves too clever by half. Who acts: old proprietor, two young men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 1

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Far in the interior of the country lay an old baronial hall, and in it lived an old proprietor, who had two sons, which two young men thought themselves too clever by half.

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**Who acts:** old proprietor, two young men · **What happens:** lie, live, have, think · **To what, where:** old baronial hall, interior, old proprietor, hall, two sons

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old proprietor, two young men), 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:pg27200:28:1
# text = Far in the interior of the country lay an old baronial hall, and in it lived an old proprietor, who had two sons, which two young men thought themselves too clever by half.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	baronial	baronial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | a old baronial hall |  | the interior of the country |  | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hall=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | a old proprietor |  | hall |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme proprietor=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | a old proprietor | two sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | two young men | two sons |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme themselves=Attribute |

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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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