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title: Nothing was to be seen but an open meadow, surrounded by a few bushe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing was to be seen but an open meadow, surrounded by a few bushes, through which ran a broad canal or stream. Who acts: few bushes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 35

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Nothing was to be seen but an open meadow, surrounded by a few bushes, through which ran a broad canal or stream.

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**Who acts:** few bushes · **What happens:** see, surround, run · **To what, where:** Nothing, open meadow, broad canal

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few bushes), 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:pg27200:41:35
# text = Nothing was to be seen but an open meadow, surrounded by a few bushes, through which ran a broad canal or stream.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **surround** | participle · passive | a few bushes | a open meadow |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past |  | a broad canal or stream |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme canal=Trajectory |

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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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