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title: Then they began to talk of those mysterious beings with which the la… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they began to talk of those mysterious beings with which the land of the Alps abounds; the hosts of apparitions which come in the night, and carry off the sleepers through the air, to the wonderful floating town of Venice; of the wild herds-man, who drives the black sheep across the meadows. Wh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 55

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Then they began to talk of those mysterious beings with which the land of the Alps abounds; the hosts of apparitions which come in the night, and carry off the sleepers through the air, to the wonderful floating town of Venice; of the wild herds-man, who drives the black sheep across the meadows.

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**Who acts:** waters, land, apparitions, man · **What happens:** begin, talk, abound, come, carry off, float · **To what, where:** man, sleepers, air, black sheep, meadows

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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 (waters, land, apparitions, man), 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:pg27200:53:55
# text = Then they began to talk of those mysterious beings with which the land of the Alps abounds; the hosts of apparitions which come in the night, and carry off the sleepers through the air, to the wonderful floating town of Venice; of the wild herds-man, who drives the black sheep across the meadows.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	abounds	abound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	apparitions	apparition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	amod	_	_
42	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
54	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	across	across	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | waters *= water* | man |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive | waters *= water* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of that mysterious beings | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **abound** | present | the land of the Alps |  |  |  |  | with that mysterious beings | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with which=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | apparitions |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **carry off** | infinitive |  | the sleepers |  | the air |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeper=Theme |
| 6 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **drive** | present | man | the black sheep |  | the meadows |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme across meadow=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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