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title: In Denmark there stands an old castle named Kronenburg, close by the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In Denmark there stands an old castle named Kronenburg, close by the Sound of Elsinore, where large ships, both English, Russian, and Prussian, pass by hundreds every day. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 1

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In Denmark there stands an old castle named Kronenburg, close by the Sound of Elsinore, where large ships, both English, Russian, and Prussian, pass by hundreds every day.

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**What happens:** stand, name, pass · **To what, where:** old castle, Denmark

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:50:1
# text = In Denmark there stands an old castle named Kronenburg, close by the Sound of Elsinore, where large ships, both English, Russian, and Prussian, pass by hundreds every day.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	Kronenburg	Kronenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sound	Sound	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Elsinore	Elsinore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
23	English	English	ADJ	JJ	_	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Prussian	prussian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | a old castle |  | Denmark; there |  | by the Sound of Elsinore and large ships | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in denmark=Destination |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a old castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | by hundreds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hundred=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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