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title: Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the world's end, stood the Tree of the Sun; a noble tree, such as we have never seen, and perhaps never may see. Who acts: India, we, noble tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher'
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 1

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Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the world's end, stood the Tree of the Sun; a noble tree, such as we have never seen, and perhaps never may see.

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**Who acts:** India, we, noble tree · **What happens:** seem, stand, not see · **To what, where:** Tree, noble tree, east

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (India, we, noble tree), 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:pg27200:143:1
# text = Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the world's end, stood the Tree of the Sun; a noble tree, such as we have never seen, and perhaps never may see.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | India |  |  |  | day |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | India *not said here* | the Tree of the Sun |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | we | a noble tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **see** | may | a noble tree | the east in India *not said here* |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer east=Stimulus |

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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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