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title: And really in the midst of the moor lay something like a great knott… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And really in the midst of the moor lay something like a great knotted block of alder, and that was the old grandmother's cupboard. Who acts: midst, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 142

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And really in the midst of the moor lay something like a great knotted block of alder, and that was the old grandmother's cupboard.

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**Who acts:** midst, that · **What happens:** lie, knot, be · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midst, 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:pg27200:211:142
# text = And really in the midst of the moor lay something like a great knotted block of alder, and that was the old grandmother's cupboard.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	knotted	knot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	alder	alder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the midst of the moor | something |  |  |  | like a great knotted block of alder; grandmother cupboard *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme |
| 2 | **knot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | 's the old grandmother | 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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