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title: It was in our own days; the lake had been transformed into marsh lan… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in our own days; the lake had been transformed into marsh land; the whole baronial seat had, as it were, disappeared. Who acts: meantime, whole baronial seat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 44

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It was in our own days; the lake had been transformed into marsh land; the whole baronial seat had, as it were, disappeared.

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**Who acts:** meantime, whole baronial seat · **What happens:** be, transform, disappear · **To what, where:** lake, marsh land

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meantime, whole baronial seat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:10513`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:155:44
# text = It was in our own days; the lake had been transformed into marsh land; the whole baronial seat had, as it were, disappeared.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	baronial	baronial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | meantime |  |  |  | in our own days |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **transform** | past · perfect · passive |  | the lake |  |  |  | into marsh land *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into land=Result |
| 3 | **disappear** | past · perfect | the whole baronial seat |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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