--- title: The town lies on the sea shore, which is always beautiful; but here… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The town lies on the sea shore, which is always beautiful; but here it might be more beautiful than it is, for on every side the fields are flat, and it is a long way to the forest. Who acts: town, sea shore, fields. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/) / 2 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 2 The town lies on the sea shore, which is always beautiful; but here it might be more beautiful than it is, for on every side the fields are flat, and it is a long way to the forest. **Who acts:** town, sea shore, fields · **What happens:** lie, be · **To what, where:** sea shore, side, long way This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, sea shore, fields), 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:pg27200:202:2 # text = The town lies on the sea shore, which is always beautiful; but here it might be more beautiful than it is, for on every side the fields are flat, and it is a long way to the forest. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 21 than than SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | the town | | | the sea shore | | for every side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the sea shore | | | | | always, beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | might | town | | | here | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | present | town | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the fields | every side *not said here* | | | | flat *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | town | a long way | | | | to the forest | tree rules | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/3/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/)