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title: Not like the many other towns, crowded with heavy stone houses, stif… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Not like the many other towns, crowded with heavy stone houses, stiff and foreign looking. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 110

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Not like the many other towns, crowded with heavy stone houses, stiff and foreign looking.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not like, look · **To what, where:** many other towns

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:55:110
# text = Not like the many other towns, crowded with heavy stone houses, stiff and foreign looking.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	compound	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | imperative | you *not said here* | the many other towns |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot town=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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