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title: Here and there, amidst the trees of the silent valley, stood poles w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there, amidst the trees of the silent valley, stood poles which supported the wires of the electric telegraph. Who acts: poles. 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 49

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Here and there, amidst the trees of the silent valley, stood poles which supported the wires of the electric telegraph.

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**Who acts:** poles · **What happens:** stand, support · **To what, where:** poles, wires

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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 (poles), 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:pg27200:55:49
# text = Here and there, amidst the trees of the silent valley, stood poles which supported the wires of the electric telegraph.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | poles |  | here |  | amidst the trees of the silent valley | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pole=Stimulus |
| 2 | **support** | past | poles | the wires of the electric telegraph |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wire=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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