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title: The sound continued from every direction, for the sportsmen surround… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sound continued from every direction, for the sportsmen surrounded the moor, and some were even seated on branches of trees, overlooking the rushes. Who acts: sportsmen, sound. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 76

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The sound continued from every direction, for the sportsmen surrounded the moor, and some were even seated on branches of trees, overlooking the rushes.

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**Who acts:** sportsmen, sound · **What happens:** continue, surround, seat, overlook · **To what, where:** sound, direction, moor, some, branches, rushes

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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 (sportsmen, sound), 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:pg27200:201:76
# text = The sound continued from every direction, for the sportsmen surrounded the moor, and some were even seated on branches of trees, overlooking the rushes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sportsmen	sportsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	overlooking	overlook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle |  | the sound *not said here* |  | every direction |  | for the sportsmen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **surround** | participle | the sportsmen *not said here* | the moor |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moor=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **seat** | past · passive | the sound *not said here* | some |  | branches of trees |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 4 | **overlook** | gerund | the sound *not said here* | the rushes |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Theme |

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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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