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title: Opposite the old nunnery is the deepest place, which is called the "… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Opposite the old nunnery is the deepest place, which is called the "bell-deep," and there dwells the old water spirit, the "Au-mann." A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 5

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Opposite the old nunnery is the deepest place, which is called the "bell-deep," and there dwells the old water spirit, the "Au-mann."

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**What happens:** be, call, dwell · **To what, where:** deepest place, old water spirit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. 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:pg27200:10:5
# text = Opposite the old nunnery is the deepest place, which is called the "bell-deep," and there dwells the old water spirit, the "Au-mann."
1	Opposite	opposite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nunnery	nunnery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Au	Au	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	mann	Mann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the deepest place |  |  |  | opposite the old nunnery | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | the deepest place |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **dwell** | present |  | the old water spirit |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme spirit=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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