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title: Before us rises a great mound of sand--a mountain we have long seen,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Before us rises a great mound of sand--a mountain we have long seen, and towards which we are wending our way, driving slowly along through the deep sand. Who acts: us, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 4

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Before us rises a great mound of sand--a mountain we have long seen, and towards which we are wending our way, driving slowly along through the deep sand.

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**Who acts:** us, we · **What happens:** rise, see, wend, drive · **To what, where:** great mound, mountain, way, deep sand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, we), 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:pg27200:12:4
# text = Before us rises a great mound of sand--a mountain we have long seen, and towards which we are wending our way, driving slowly along through the deep sand.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	wending	wend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
27	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	along	along	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | us | a great mound of sand |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mound=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | a mountain |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wend** | present · progressive | we | our way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  | the deep sand |  | along, slowly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through sand=Trajectory |

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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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