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title: All around lay a wide dead plain, covered with faded brown heath, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All around lay a wide dead plain, covered with faded brown heath, and black charred spaces between the white sand hills. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 18

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All around lay a wide dead plain, covered with faded brown heath, and black charred spaces between the white sand hills.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lay, cover, fade, char · **To what, where:** wide dead plain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:105:18
# text = All around lay a wide dead plain, covered with faded brown heath, and black charred spaces between the white sand hills.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	charred	char	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* | a wide dead plain and black charred spaces between the white sand hills |  |  |  | all, around *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Result |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a wide dead plain and black charred spaces between the white sand hills *not said here* |  |  |  | with faded brown heath | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heath=Theme |
| 3 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **char** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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