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title: Not far from this spot stands the town of Bex, and at every step can… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Not far from this spot stands the town of Bex, and at every step can be seen an increase of fruitfulness and verdure. 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 41

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Not far from this spot stands the town of Bex, and at every step can be seen an increase of fruitfulness and verdure.

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**What happens:** stand, see · **To what, where:** town, spot, increase

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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: 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:pg27200:55:41
# text = Not far from this spot stands the town of Bex, and at every step can be seen an increase of fruitfulness and verdure.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Bex	Bex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fruitfulness	fruitfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **stand** | present |  | the town of Bex |  | this spot |  | far *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | can · passive |  | a increase of fruitfulness and verdure |  |  |  | at every step | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: increase=Stimulus |

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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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