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description: They were as large and high as those on the coast, and the wind had carried them there; there was also a legend attached to them. Who acts: hills, legend. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 88

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They were as large and high as those on the coast, and the wind had carried them there; there was also a legend attached to them.

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**Who acts:** hills, legend · **What happens:** be, carry, attach · **To what, where:** wind, legend, hills

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hills, legend), 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:pg27200:159:88
# text = They were as large and high as those on the coast, and the wind had carried them there; there was also a legend attached to them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
26	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | hills *= hill* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as those | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  | there |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Value |
| 4 | **be** | past | a legend |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **attach** | participle |  | a legend *not said here* | hills *= hill* |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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