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title: Between the Baltic and the North Sea there lies an old swan's nest,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Between the Baltic and the North Sea there lies an old swan's nest, wherein swans are born and have been born that shall never die. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 1

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Between the Baltic and the North Sea there lies an old swan's nest, wherein swans are born and have been born that shall never die.

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**What happens:** lie, bear, not die · **To what, where:** nest, swans

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. 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:pg27200:187:1
# text = Between the Baltic and the North Sea there lies an old swan's nest, wherein swans are born and have been born that shall never die.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | a old swan's nest |  | there |  | between the Baltic and the North Sea | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nest=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive |  | swans |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **not** **die** | shall |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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