---
title: On three sides you find yourself surrounded by cloistered walks. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On three sides you find yourself surrounded by cloistered walks. Who acts: you, yourself. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Seventeenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/) / 10

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On three sides you find yourself surrounded by cloistered walks.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, yourself · **What happens:** find, surround, cloister · **To what, where:** yourself, three sides

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth 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, yourself), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:108:10
# text = On three sides you find yourself surrounded by cloistered walks.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	cloistered	cloister	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | you | yourself |  | three sides |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | participle | yourself *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cloister** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/9/)
- next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/11/)
- ↑ back to [Seventeenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/)