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title: "Near the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Near the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls. Who acts: great Belt, straits. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 1

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"Near the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls.

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**Who acts:** great Belt, straits · **What happens:** be, connect, stand · **To what, where:** one, Cattegat, old mansion, shores

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Belt, straits), 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:pg27200:212:1
# text = "Near the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Belt	Belt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	connect	connect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Cattegat	Cattegat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the great Belt | one |  |  |  | of the straits | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** *in a quote* | present | the straits | the Cattegat |  |  |  | with the Baltic | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cattegat=Patient with baltic=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | present |  | a old mansion |  | the shores of the great Belt |  | with thick red walls | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mansion=Theme near shore=Destination |

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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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