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title: Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a gre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house. Who acts: covered rampart, great red house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 1

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Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house.

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**Who acts:** covered rampart, great red house · **What happens:** cover, encircle, lie · **To what, where:** Copenhagen, covered rampart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (covered rampart, great red house), 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:pg27200:3:1
# text = Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	rampart	rampart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	encircles	encircle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **encircle** | present | the covered rampart | Copenhagen |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme copenhagen=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | present | a great red house |  |  | the covered rampart |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near rampart=Location |

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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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