--- title: He did not remember having seen this hut before, yet there it stood;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He did not remember having seen this hut before, yet there it stood; and he thought, at first, that the young maiden was Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter, whom he had once kissed in the dance. Who acts: rain, hut, young maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/) / 18 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 18 He did not remember having seen this hut before, yet there it stood; and he thought, at first, that the young maiden was Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter, whom he had once kissed in the dance. **Who acts:** rain, hut, young maiden · **What happens:** not remember, have, see, stand, think, be · **To what, where:** hut, Annette, dance · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, hut, young maiden), 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:pg27200:63:18 # text = He did not remember having seen this hut before, yet there it stood; and he thought, at first, that the young maiden was Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter, whom he had once kissed in the dance. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 ccomp _ _ 6 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 before before ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 Annette Annette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 schoolmaster schoolmaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 obl _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 39 advmod _ _ 39 kissed kiss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **remember** | past · do-support | rain | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | participle | | this hut | | | | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | | 4 | **stand** | past | hut | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | rain | | | | | first *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | the young maiden | Annette and the schoolmaster's daughter | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **kiss** | past · perfect | rain | Annette and the schoolmaster's daughter | | the dance | | once *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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. 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