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title: In front of the Military School extends in time of peace the arena o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In front of the Military School extends in time of peace the arena of war--a field without a blade of grass, a piece of sandy steppe, as if cut out of the Desert of Africa, where Fata Morgana displays her wondrous airy castles and hanging gardens. Who acts: Fata. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 91

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In front of the Military School extends in time of peace the arena of war--a field without a blade of grass, a piece of sandy steppe, as if cut out of the Desert of Africa, where Fata Morgana displays her wondrous airy castles and hanging gardens.

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**Who acts:** Fata · **What happens:** extend, cut out, display, hang · **To what, where:** front, Desert, wondrous airy castles

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (Fata), 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:pg27200:24:91
# text = In front of the Military School extends in time of peace the arena of war--a field without a blade of grass, a piece of sandy steppe, as if cut out of the Desert of Africa, where Fata Morgana displays her wondrous airy castles and hanging gardens.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	School	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	extends	extend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	arena	arena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
42	Fata	Fata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	Morgana	Morgana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	_
44	displays	display	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
46	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	amod	_	_
51	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | present |  |  |  | front of the Military School | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 2 | **cut out** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  | the Desert of Africa |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector desert=Eventuality |
| 3 | **display** | present | Fata | Fata's wondrous airy castles and hanging gardens |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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