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title: In a forsaken stone building, which stood just beyond the seas of sn… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In a forsaken stone building, which stood just beyond the seas of snow, they one night took shelter. Who acts: waters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 51

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In a forsaken stone building, which stood just beyond the seas of snow, they one night took shelter.

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**Who acts:** waters · **What happens:** forsake, stand, take · **To what, where:** forsaken stone building, shelter

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters), 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:pg27200:53:51
# text = In a forsaken stone building, which stood just beyond the seas of snow, they one night took shelter.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | a forsaken stone building |  | beyond the seas of snow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in building=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past | waters *= water* | shelter |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |

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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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