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title: We do not dwell here, but in a land just as fair, that lies beyond t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We do not dwell here, but in a land just as fair, that lies beyond the ocean, which we have to cross for a long distance; there is no island in our passage upon which we could pass, the night; nothing but a little rock rising out of the sea, upon which we can scarcely stand with safety, even closely
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 95

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We do not dwell here, but in a land just as fair, that lies beyond the ocean, which we have to cross for a long distance; there is no island in our passage upon which we could pass, the night; nothing but a little rock rising out of the sea, upon which we can scarcely stand with safety, even closely crowded together.

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**Who acts:** We, that, ocean, island, our · **What happens:** not dwell, lie, have, cross, be, pass · **To what, where:** ocean, passage, sea

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (We, that, ocean, island), 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:pg27200:208:95
# text = We do not dwell here, but in a land just as fair, that lies beyond the ocean, which we have to cross for a long distance; there is no island in our passage upon which we could pass, the night; nothing but a little rock rising out of the sea, upon which we can scarcely stand with safety, even closely crowded together.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
40	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	parataxis	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
52	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	obl	_	_
60	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
64	with	with	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
67	even	even	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
68	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
69	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	63	advcl	_	_
70	together	together	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dwell** | present · do-support | We |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present | that |  |  | the ocean |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond ocean=Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | we | the ocean |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | the ocean *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a long distance | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **does** | present | no island in our passage and the night |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pass** | could | we |  |  | our passage |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon which=Location |
| 7 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location |
| 8 | **stand** | can | we |  |  |  |  | with safety; scarcely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon which=Location |
| 9 | **crowd together** | participle | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | closely, together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **pass** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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