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title: On both sides of the mountain-path stand these little wooden houses;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On both sides of the mountain-path stand these little wooden houses; and, as within, there are many children and many mouths to feed, each house has its own little potato garden. Who acts: these, house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 10

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On both sides of the mountain-path stand these little wooden houses; and, as within, there are many children and many mouths to feed, each house has its own little potato garden.

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**Who acts:** these, house · **What happens:** stand, house, be, feed, have · **To what, where:** sides, many children, own little potato garden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, house), 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:pg27200:52:10
# text = On both sides of the mountain-path stand these little wooden houses; and, as within, there are many children and many mouths to feed, each house has its own little potato garden.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  |  |  | both sides of the mountain path |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **house** |  | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | many children and many mouths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | present | each house | path's own little potato garden |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=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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