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title: The summit of this tree spread itself for miles like an entire fores… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The summit of this tree spread itself for miles like an entire forest, each of its smaller branches forming a complete tree. Who acts: summit, smaller branches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 2

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The summit of this tree spread itself for miles like an entire forest, each of its smaller branches forming a complete tree.

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**Who acts:** summit, smaller branches · **What happens:** spread, form · **To what, where:** Tree, complete tree

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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 (summit, smaller branches), 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:pg27200:143:2
# text = The summit of this tree spread itself for miles like an entire forest, each of its smaller branches forming a complete tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	forming	form	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the summit of this tree | Tree |  |  |  | for miles like a entire forest  each | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | Tree's smaller branches *not said here* | a complete tree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |

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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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