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title: The house was situated in a narrow gorge, whose rocky walls rose to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The house was situated in a narrow gorge, whose rocky walls rose to a perpendicular height, naked and black, while round their summits clouds often hung, looking like white living figures. Who acts: rocky walls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 4

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The house was situated in a narrow gorge, whose rocky walls rose to a perpendicular height, naked and black, while round their summits clouds often hung, looking like white living figures.

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**Who acts:** rocky walls · **What happens:** situate, rise, hang, look · **To what, where:** house, narrow gorge, perpendicular height, summits clouds

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocky walls), 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:pg27200:36:4
# text = The house was situated in a narrow gorge, whose rocky walls rose to a perpendicular height, naked and black, while round their summits clouds often hung, looking like white living figures.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gorge	gorge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	perpendicular	perpendicular	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | past · passive |  | the house |  | a narrow gorge |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in gorge=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** | past | rocky walls |  |  | a perpendicular height |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to height=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hang** | past | rocky walls *not said here* |  |  | summits clouds |  | often *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round cloud=Destination |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | rocky walls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like white living figures | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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