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title: The balcony window stood open, and from it could be seen the beautif… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The balcony window stood open, and from it could be seen the beautiful wide extended lake, the water so clear and still, that the mountains of Savoy, with their villages, woods, and snow-crowned peaks, were clearly reflected in it. Who acts: balcony window. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 22

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The balcony window stood open, and from it could be seen the beautiful wide extended lake, the water so clear and still, that the mountains of Savoy, with their villages, woods, and snow-crowned peaks, were clearly reflected in it.

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**Who acts:** balcony window · **What happens:** stand, see, crown, reflect · **To what, where:** window, mountains

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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 (balcony window), 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:pg27200:61:22
# text = The balcony window stood open, and from it could be seen the beautiful wide extended lake, the water so clear and still, that the mountains of Savoy, with their villages, woods, and snow-crowned peaks, were clearly reflected in it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Savoy	Savoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
45	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the balcony window |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | could · passive |  | window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | the mountains of Savoy and mountains's villages and woods and crowned peaks |  | window |  | clearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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