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title: And they called the land 'wine-land,' that is, 'Groenland,' or 'Sloe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And they called the land 'wine-land,' that is, 'Groenland,' or 'Sloeland.'" Who acts: grapes, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 50

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And they called the land 'wine-land,' that is, 'Groenland,' or 'Sloeland.'"

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**Who acts:** grapes, that · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** land, Groenland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grapes, that), 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:pg27200:206:50
# text = And they called the land 'wine-land,' that is, 'Groenland,' or 'Sloeland.'"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Groenland	Groenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Sloeland	Sloeland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | grapes *= grape* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | Groenland or Sloeland |  |  |  |  | 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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