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title: It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and there, while across the field flowed a broad canal or river. Who acts: It, wild bushes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 76

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It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and there, while across the field flowed a broad canal or river.

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**Who acts:** It, wild bushes · **What happens:** be, desolate, stand up, flow · **To what, where:** broad canal, field

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, wild bushes), 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:pg1597:5:76
# text = It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and there, while across the field flowed a broad canal or river.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand up** | past | some wild bushes |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **flow** | past | some wild bushes *not said here* | a broad canal or river |  | the field |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canal=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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