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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 79

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At that time Old Skjagen, with the eastern and western town, extended for miles, with sand hills and arable land as far as the lighthouse near "Grenen."

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**What happens:** extend · **To what, where:** eastern town

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:161:79
# text = At that time Old Skjagen, with the eastern and western town, extended for miles, with sand hills and arable land as far as the lighthouse near "Grenen."
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	arable	arable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	near	near	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Grenen	Grenen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | participle |  | the eastern town *not said here* |  |  |  | for miles *goal*; with sand hills and arable land; far *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for mile=Goal |

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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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