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title: In the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-hous… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through its yard. Who acts: high road. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 1

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In the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through its yard.

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**Who acts:** high road · **What happens:** lead, stand, run · **To what, where:** wood, solitary farm house, high road

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high road), 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:pg27200:29:1
# text = In the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through its yard.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	right	right	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the high road |  |  | a wood |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a solitary farm house |  | the high road |  | the road and fact *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in road=Destination |
| 3 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  |  | through fact's yard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through yard=Trajectory |

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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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