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title: Silently he wandered on through the country of the Alps, which seeme… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Silently he wandered on through the country of the Alps, which seemed to him like a fruit garden, covered with soft turf. Who acts: Kjoge. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 86

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Silently he wandered on through the country of the Alps, which seemed to him like a fruit garden, covered with soft turf.

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**Who acts:** Kjoge · **What happens:** wander on, seem, cover · **To what, where:** country, Kjoge

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (Kjoge), 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:pg27200:203:86
# text = Silently he wandered on through the country of the Alps, which seemed to him like a fruit garden, covered with soft turf.
1	Silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander on** | past | Kjoge |  |  | the country of the Alps |  | silently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seem** | past |  |  | Kjoge |  |  | like a fruit garden | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with soft turf | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with turf=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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