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title: These houses all stood on the same side of the road, so that the fre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These houses all stood on the same side of the road, so that the fresh, green meadows, in which were cows grazing, with bells on their necks, were not hidden. Who acts: houses, cows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 117

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These houses all stood on the same side of the road, so that the fresh, green meadows, in which were cows grazing, with bells on their necks, were not hidden.

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**Who acts:** houses, cows · **What happens:** stand, be, graze, not hide · **To what, where:** same side, cows, bells, necks

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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 (houses, cows), 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:pg27200:55:117
# text = These houses all stood on the same side of the road, so that the fresh, green meadows, in which were cows grazing, with bells on their necks, were not hidden.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | this houses |  |  | the same side of the road |  | so the fresh green meadows and which cows; all *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this houses *not said here* | which cows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **graze** | gerund | which cows *not said here* | bells |  | bells's necks |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hide** | past · passive | this houses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V» |

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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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