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title: Sea and moorland have been turned into green meadows, stretches of h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sea and moorland have been turned into green meadows, stretches of heather have become arable land, and in the shelter of the peasant's cottages, apple-trees and rose-bushes grow, though they certainly require much care, as the sharp west wind blows upon them. Who acts: stretches, sharp west wind. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 58

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Sea and moorland have been turned into green meadows, stretches of heather have become arable land, and in the shelter of the peasant's cottages, apple-trees and rose-bushes grow, though they certainly require much care, as the sharp west wind blows upon them.

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**Who acts:** stretches, sharp west wind · **What happens:** turn, become, grow, require, blow · **To what, where:** Sea, green meadows, arable land, shelter, much care

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stretches, sharp west wind), 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:pg27200:158:58
# text = Sea and moorland have been turned into green meadows, stretches of heather have become arable land, and in the shelter of the peasant's cottages, apple-trees and rose-bushes grow, though they certainly require much care, as the sharp west wind blows upon them.
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stretches	stretch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	arable	arable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	cottages	cottage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · perfect · passive |  | Sea and moorland |  | green meadows |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into meadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect | stretches of heather | arable land |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient meadow=Result |
| 3 | **grow** | present |  |  |  | the shelter of the peasant's cottages and apple trees and rose bushes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shelter=Location |
| 4 | **require** | present | stretches *= stretch* | much care |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme care=Precondition |
| 5 | **blow** | present | the sharp west wind |  |  |  |  | upon stretches *= stretch* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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