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title: Halfway up the hill stood the boarding-house in which Babette's godm… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Halfway up the hill stood the boarding-house in which Babette's godmother resided. Who acts: hill, godmother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 16

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Halfway up the hill stood the boarding-house in which Babette's godmother resided.

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**Who acts:** hill, godmother · **What happens:** stand, reside · **To what, where:** boarding house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hill, godmother), 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:pg27200:61:16
# text = Halfway up the hill stood the boarding-house in which Babette's godmother resided.
1	Halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	boarding	boarding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	resided	reside	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the hill | the boarding house |  |  |  | halfway *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reside** | past | Babette's godmother |  |  | the boarding house |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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