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title: The landscape was always changing, but ever above them towered the l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The landscape was always changing, but ever above them towered the lofty snow-clad mountains, whose names not only Rudy but every other child knew--"The Jungfrau," "The Monk and the Eiger." Who acts: landscape, men, other child, lofty clad mountains. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 43

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The landscape was always changing, but ever above them towered the lofty snow-clad mountains, whose names not only Rudy but every other child knew--"The Jungfrau," "The Monk and the Eiger."

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**Who acts:** landscape, men, other child, lofty clad mountains · **What happens:** change, tower, know, name · **To what, where:** lofty clad mountains, Jungfrau

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landscape, men, other child, lofty clad mountains), 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:pg27200:53:43
# text = The landscape was always changing, but ever above them towered the lofty snow-clad mountains, whose names not only Rudy but every other child knew--"The Jungfrau," "The Monk and the Eiger."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	towered	tower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	clad	clad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Jungfrau	Jungfrau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Monk	Monk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Eiger	Eiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · progressive | the landscape |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tower** | past | men *= man* | the lofty clad mountains and the lofty clad mountains and the lofty clad mountains's names  Rudy's names  Rudy |  |  | ever |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past | every other child | the Jungfrau |  |  |  | the Monk and the Eiger *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer jungfrau=Stimulus |
| 4 | **name** |  | the lofty clad mountains and the lofty clad mountains and names  Rudy's names  Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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