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title: Down in the valley, near Bex, among the great walnut-trees, by the s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Down in the valley, near Bex, among the great walnut-trees, by the side of a little rushing mountain-stream, lived a rich miller. Who acts: valley. 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 25

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Down in the valley, near Bex, among the great walnut-trees, by the side of a little rushing mountain-stream, lived a rich miller.

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**Who acts:** valley · **What happens:** rush, live · **To what, where:** rich miller

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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 (valley), 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:pg27200:55:25
# text = Down in the valley, near Bex, among the great walnut-trees, by the side of a little rushing mountain-stream, lived a rich miller.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bex	Bex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the valley | a rich miller |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme miller=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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