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title: Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where once lay old, ev… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where once lay old, everlasting Rome. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 20

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Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where once lay old, everlasting Rome.

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**What happens:** lie, everlast · **To what, where:** Rome

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. 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:pg27200:191:20
# text = Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where once lay old, everlasting Rome.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	everlasting	everlast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  |  |  |  |  | old, once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **everlast** | gerund |  | Rome |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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