--- title: Norway's mountains seemed to rise higher in the sunlight of former d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Norway's mountains seemed to rise higher in the sunlight of former days; there was a rustling among the pine trees and the birches; the gods of the North, the heroes, and the noble women, showed themselves in the dark forest depths. Who acts: mountains, rustling, noble women. 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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: who acts (mountains, rustling, noble women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:187:16 # text = Norway's mountains seemed to rise higher in the sunlight of former days; there was a rustling among the pine trees and the birches; the gods of the North, the heroes, and the noble women, showed themselves in the dark forest depths. 1 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 higher high ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rustling rustling NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 19 among among ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 birches birch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 heroes hero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 42 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | Norway's mountains | the gods of the North and the heroes | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | Norway's mountains *not said here* | | | the sunlight of former days | | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunlight=Location | | 3 | **be** | past | a rustling among the pine trees and the birches | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | the noble women | women *= woman* | | | | in the dark forest depths | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in depth=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/17/) - ↑ back to [The Swan's Nest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/)