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title: In Denmark, in one of those green islands where the foliage of the b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In Denmark, in one of those green islands where the foliage of the beech-woods rustles in the wind, and where many Huns' graves may be seen, was another poor boy born. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 66

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In Denmark, in one of those green islands where the foliage of the beech-woods rustles in the wind, and where many Huns' graves may be seen, was another poor boy born.

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**What happens:** see, be, bear · **To what, where:** foliage, poor boy, Denmark

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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: 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:pg27200:129:66
# text = In Denmark, in one of those green islands where the foliage of the beech-woods rustles in the wind, and where many Huns' graves may be seen, was another poor boy born.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	rustles	rustle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Huns	hun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
37	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	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 | **see** | may · passive |  | the foliage of the woods rustles in the wind |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | another poor boy |  | Denmark |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | another poor boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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