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title: Among dark pine woods, near the melancholy banks of the Stoxen, lies… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Among dark pine woods, near the melancholy banks of the Stoxen, lies the old convent church of Wreta. Who acts: old convent church. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 2

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Among dark pine woods, near the melancholy banks of the Stoxen, lies the old convent church of Wreta.

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**Who acts:** old convent church · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** dark pine woods

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old convent church), 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:pg27200:119:2
# text = Among dark pine woods, near the melancholy banks of the Stoxen, lies the old convent church of Wreta.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Stoxen	Stoxen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Wreta	Wreta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the old convent church of Wreta |  |  | dark pine woods and the melancholy banks of the Stoxen |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among wood=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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