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title: A few miserable-looking wooden booths, for the accommodation of Dutc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A few miserable-looking wooden booths, for the accommodation of Dutch watermen, stood on the opposite shore. Who acts: few looking wooden booths. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 36

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A few miserable-looking wooden booths, for the accommodation of Dutch watermen, stood on the opposite shore.

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**Who acts:** few looking wooden booths · **What happens:** look, stand, accommodate · **To what, where:** opposite shore, Dutch watermen

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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 (few looking wooden booths), 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:pg27200:41:36
# text = A few miserable-looking wooden booths, for the accommodation of Dutch watermen, stood on the opposite shore.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	booths	booth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	accommodation	accommodation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	watermen	waterman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a few looking wooden booths |  |  | the opposite shore |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 3 | **accommodate** |  |  | Dutch watermen |  |  |  |  | nom accommodation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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