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title: In this street, just in front of the market-place where vegetables a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In this street, just in front of the market-place where vegetables are sold, stands a pig, made of brass and curiously formed. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 2

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In this street, just in front of the market-place where vegetables are sold, stands a pig, made of brass and curiously formed.

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**What happens:** sell, stand, make, form · **To what, where:** vegetables, pig, street

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:89:2
# text = In this street, just in front of the market-place where vegetables are sold, stands a pig, made of brass and curiously formed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present · passive |  | vegetables |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present |  | a pig |  | this street in front of the market place |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in street=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of brass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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