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title: There at the open window sat the dead woman, preaching a sermon agai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There at the open window sat the dead woman, preaching a sermon against sin--my poor faded rose out of the parsonage garden!" A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 21

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There at the open window sat the dead woman, preaching a sermon against sin--my poor faded rose out of the parsonage garden!"

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**What happens:** sit, preach, fade, rise · **To what, where:** dead woman, open window, sermon, parsonage garden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. 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:pg27200:94:21
# text = There at the open window sat the dead woman, preaching a sermon against sin--my poor faded rose out of the parsonage garden!"
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	preaching	preach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sermon	sermon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
20	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	parsonage	parsonage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the dead woman |  | the open window; there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at window=Location |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | gerund |  | a sermon |  |  |  | against sin | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sermon=Topic |
| 3 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **rise** | past |  |  |  | the parsonage garden |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out garden=Location |

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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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