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title: An hour's walk farther up the ascent lived his grandfather, who cut… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: An hour's walk farther up the ascent lived his grandfather, who cut and carved the pretty little toy-houses; and in the old man's room stood a large press, full of all sorts of carved things--nut-crackers, knives and forks, boxes with beautifully carved foliage, leaping chamois. Who acts: you, ascen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 18

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An hour's walk farther up the ascent lived his grandfather, who cut and carved the pretty little toy-houses; and in the old man's room stood a large press, full of all sorts of carved things--nut-crackers, knives and forks, boxes with beautifully carved foliage, leaping chamois.

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**Who acts:** you, ascent, grandfather · **What happens:** walk, live, cut, carve, stand, leap · **To what, where:** grandfather, pretty little toy houses, large press, room, chamois, carved things

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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 (you, ascent, grandfather), 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:pg27200:52:18
# text = An hour's walk farther up the ascent lived his grandfather, who cut and carved the pretty little toy-houses; and in the old man's room stood a large press, full of all sorts of carved things--nut-crackers, knives and forks, boxes with beautifully carved foliage, leaping chamois.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ascent	ascent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	forks	fork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	appos	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
59	chamois	chamois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the ascent | ascent's grandfather |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme grandfather=Location |
| 3 | **cut** | past | ascent's grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **carve** | past | ascent's grandfather *not said here* | the pretty little toy houses |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past | you *not said here* | a large press |  | the old man's room |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent press=Theme in room=Destination |
| 6 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **leap** | gerund | you *not said here* | chamois |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamois=Trajectory |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | carved things  nut crackers and knives and forks |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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