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title: They arrived at last at such a great height that towns and villages… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They arrived at last at such a great height that towns and villages lay beneath them, and the church steeples looked like little specks between the green trees. Who acts: tongs, towns, church steeples. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 11

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They arrived at last at such a great height that towns and villages lay beneath them, and the church steeples looked like little specks between the green trees.

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**Who acts:** tongs, towns, church steeples · **What happens:** arrive, lay, look · **To what, where:** last, great height

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongs, towns, church steeples), 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:pg27200:197:11
# text = They arrived at last at such a great height that towns and villages lay beneath them, and the church steeples looked like little specks between the green trees.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
11	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	steeples	steeple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | tongs *= tong* |  |  | last |  | at such great height | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present | towns and villages | such great height |  |  |  | beneath tongs *= tong* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme beneath they=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | the church steeples |  |  |  |  | like little specks between the green trees | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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