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title: As is often the case with many of these towns, it is charmingly situ… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As is often the case with many of these towns, it is charmingly situated on the banks of the river Neckar, which rushes rapidly by, passing villages, old knights' castles, and green vineyards, till its waters mingle with those of the stately Rhine. Who acts: river Neckar, waters. A sentence of «Fair
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 2

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As is often the case with many of these towns, it is charmingly situated on the banks of the river Neckar, which rushes rapidly by, passing villages, old knights' castles, and green vineyards, till its waters mingle with those of the stately Rhine.

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**Who acts:** river Neckar, waters · **What happens:** be, situate, rush, pass, mingle · **To what, where:** town, banks

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river Neckar, waters), 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:pg27200:129:2
# text = As is often the case with many of these towns, it is charmingly situated on the banks of the river Neckar, which rushes rapidly by, passing villages, old knights' castles, and green vineyards, till its waters mingle with those of the stately Rhine.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	charmingly	charmingly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Neckar	Neckar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	mingle	mingle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	Rhine	Rhine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the case; with this many towns; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **situate** | present · passive |  | town |  | the banks of the river Neckar and old knights's castles |  | green vineyards *obl*; charmingly *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on bank=Destination |
| 3 | **rush** | present | the river Neckar |  |  |  |  | by passing villages; rapidly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by village=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mingle** | present | town's waters |  |  |  |  | with those | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with that=Co-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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