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title: On the west coast of Jutland huts have been erected among the sand-h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the west coast of Jutland huts have been erected among the sand-hills; they are built of pieces of wreck, and thatched with turf and heather; there are sleeping places round the walls, and here the fishermen live and sleep during the early spring. Who acts: sleeping places, fishermen. A sentence 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 59

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On the west coast of Jutland huts have been erected among the sand-hills; they are built of pieces of wreck, and thatched with turf and heather; there are sleeping places round the walls, and here the fishermen live and sleep during the early spring.

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**Who acts:** sleeping places, fishermen · **What happens:** erect, build, thatch, be, sleep, live · **To what, where:** west coast, peasants

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleeping places, fishermen), 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:pg27200:160:59
# text = On the west coast of Jutland huts have been erected among the sand-hills; they are built of pieces of wreck, and thatched with turf and heather; there are sleeping places round the walls, and here the fishermen live and sleep during the early spring.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wreck	wreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
34	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	amod	_	_
35	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
36	round	round	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
47	during	during	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erect** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the west coast of Jutland huts |  | among the sand hills | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **build** | present · passive |  | peasants *= peasant* |  |  |  | of pieces of wreck | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with turf and heather | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with turf=Theme |
| 4 | **does** | present | sleeping places round the walls |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **live** | present | the fishermen |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sleep** | present | the fishermen *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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