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title: Glorious woods are there, and high trees, an old knightly castle wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Glorious woods are there, and high trees, an old knightly castle with red walls, swans floating in the ponds, and in the background appears, among orchards, a little town with a church. Who acts: Glorious woods, swans. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 32

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Glorious woods are there, and high trees, an old knightly castle with red walls, swans floating in the ponds, and in the background appears, among orchards, a little town with a church.

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**Who acts:** Glorious woods, swans · **What happens:** be, float, appear · **To what, where:** ponds, orchards, background

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glorious woods, swans), 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:pg27200:114:32
# text = Glorious woods are there, and high trees, an old knightly castle with red walls, swans floating in the ponds, and in the background appears, among orchards, a little town with a church.
1	Glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	orchards	orchard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Glorious woods |  |  |  |  | high trees *obl*; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** | gerund | swans *not said here* |  |  | the ponds |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory |
| 3 | **appear** | present |  | orchards  a little town with a church |  | the background |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location orchard=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:** «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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