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title: At about two miles from our cottage, where the earth on the hill is… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At about two miles from our cottage, where the earth on the hill is sheltered by a few scattered trees, stood the little church, with a silver lamp hanging before the altar. Who acts: few scattered trees, silver lamp. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 109

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At about two miles from our cottage, where the earth on the hill is sheltered by a few scattered trees, stood the little church, with a silver lamp hanging before the altar.

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**Who acts:** few scattered trees, silver lamp · **What happens:** shelter, stand, hang · **To what, where:** earth, little church, altar

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few scattered trees, silver lamp), 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:pg27200:36:109
# text = At about two miles from our cottage, where the earth on the hill is sheltered by a few scattered trees, stood the little church, with a silver lamp hanging before the altar.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	21	amod	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shelter** | present · passive | a few scattered trees | the earth on the hill |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the little church |  |  |  | at two miles from our cottage; with a silver lamp | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent church=Theme at mile=Destination |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund | a silver lamp *not said here* |  |  | the altar |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=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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