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title: Close by stood a large haystack, and between it and the house a litt… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Close by stood a large haystack, and between it and the house a little out-house, covered with a flat thatched roof. Who acts: haystack, flat. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 26

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Close by stood a large haystack, and between it and the house a little out-house, covered with a flat thatched roof.

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**Who acts:** haystack, flat · **What happens:** stand, house, cover, thatch · **To what, where:** large haystack, little out house, roof

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haystack, flat), 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:pg640:41:26
# text = Close by stood a large haystack, and between it and the house a little out-house, covered with a flat thatched roof.
1	Close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	haystack	haystack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flat	flat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a large haystack |  |  |  | close *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer haystack=Stimulus |
| 2 | **house** |  | haystack |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a little out house *not said here* |  |  |  | with a flat | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flat=Theme |
| 4 | **thatch** | participle | a flat *not said here* | roof |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent roof=Destination |

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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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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