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title: He was in East Street, as it now appears; he lay with his legs turne… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was in East Street, as it now appears; he lay with his legs turned towards a porch, and just by him sat the watchman asleep. Who acts: Counsellor, East Street, legs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 120

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He was in East Street, as it now appears; he lay with his legs turned towards a porch, and just by him sat the watchman asleep.

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**Who acts:** Counsellor, East Street, legs · **What happens:** be, appear, lie, turn, sit · **To what, where:** East Street, porch, watchman

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Counsellor, East Street, legs), 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:pg27200:41:120
# text = He was in East Street, as it now appears; he lay with his legs turned towards a porch, and just by him sat the watchman asleep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Counsellor |  |  | East Street |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | East Street |  |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Counsellor |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | past | Counsellor's legs |  |  | a porch |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards porch=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sit** | past | Counsellor *not said here* | the watchman |  |  |  | by Counsellor; asleep *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent watchman=Theme by he=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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