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title: On many an evening she sits at her window, and looks out over the ch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On many an evening she sits at her window, and looks out over the chestnut-trees to the snow-capped mountains on which Rudy once roamed. Who acts: Babette, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 88

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On many an evening she sits at her window, and looks out over the chestnut-trees to the snow-capped mountains on which Rudy once roamed.

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**Who acts:** Babette, Rudy · **What happens:** sit, look out, cap, roam · **To what, where:** window, chestnut trees, capped mountains

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, Rudy), 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:pg27200:66:88
# text = On many an evening she sits at her window, and looks out over the chestnut-trees to the snow-capped mountains on which Rudy once roamed.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	capped	cap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	advmod	_	_
29	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Babette |  |  | Babette's window | evening |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 2 | **look out** | present | Babette *not said here* |  |  | the chestnut trees |  | to the capped mountains; out *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **roam** | past | Rudy |  |  | the capped mountains |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory |

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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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