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title: Those who walked outside the town, where the houses were less crowde… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who walked outside the town, where the houses were less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields, saw the evening sky much better, and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly. Who acts: Those, houses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 3

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Those who walked outside the town, where the houses were less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields, saw the evening sky much better, and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly.

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**Who acts:** Those, houses · **What happens:** walk, be, intersperse, see, hear · **To what, where:** town, evening sky, sound

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, houses), 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:pg27200:9:3
# text = Those who walked outside the town, where the houses were less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields, saw the evening sky much better, and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	much	much	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **walk** | past | Those |  |  | the town |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside town=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the houses |  |  |  |  | crowded, less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **intersperse** | participle | the houses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by gardens and little fields | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | past |  | the evening sky |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hear** | past |  | the sound of the bell |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |

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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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