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title: Here he found a walk over-shadowed with large walnut-trees, and thei… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here he found a walk over-shadowed with large walnut-trees, and their thick foliage formed a pleasant shade. Who acts: river, thick foliage. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 106

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Here he found a walk over-shadowed with large walnut-trees, and their thick foliage formed a pleasant shade.

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**Who acts:** river, thick foliage · **What happens:** find, over-shadow, form · **To what, where:** walk, pleasant shade

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, thick foliage), 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:pg27200:55:106
# text = Here he found a walk over-shadowed with large walnut-trees, and their thick foliage formed a pleasant shade.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over-shadowed	over-shadow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | river | a walk |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Topic |
| 2 | **over-shadow** | participle |  | a walk *not said here* |  |  |  | with large walnut trees | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | past | trees's thick foliage | a pleasant shade |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shade=Theme |

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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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