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title: The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst of which were deep pools. Who acts: midst. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 3

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The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst of which were deep pools.

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**Who acts:** midst · **What happens:** surround, be · **To what, where:** corn fields, deep pools

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midst), 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:pg27200:201:3
# text = The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst of which were deep pools.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | past · passive | the midst | the corn fields and meadows |  |  |  | by large forests | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the midst | deep pools |  |  |  |  | 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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