--- title: While the lights in the windows of the miller's house still twinkled… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: While the lights in the windows of the miller's house still twinkled through the green foliage, out through the open skylight came the parlor-cat on to the roof, and along the water-pipe walked the kitchen-cat to meet her. Who acts: water pipe. 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C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water pipe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:57:26 # text = While the lights in the windows of the miller's house still twinkled through the green foliage, out through the open skylight came the parlor-cat on to the roof, and along the water-pipe walked the kitchen-cat to meet her. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 twinkled twinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 foliage foliage NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 out out ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 skylight skylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 parlor parlor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 along along ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twinkle** | past | | | | the green foliage | still | while the lights in the windows of the miller's house | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through foliage=Location | | 2 | **come on** | past | | the parlor cat | | the open skylight | | to the roof; out *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** | past | the water pipe | the kitchen cat | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cat=Theme | | 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the water pipe *not said here* | cat | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/27/) - ↑ back to [VI. the Visit to the Mill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/)