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title: At length he had crossed the highest ridges, and before him lay the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At length he had crossed the highest ridges, and before him lay the green pasture lands sloping down towards the valley, which was once his home. Who acts: peak, green pasture, valley. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 90

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At length he had crossed the highest ridges, and before him lay the green pasture lands sloping down towards the valley, which was once his home.

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**Who acts:** peak, green pasture, valley · **What happens:** cross, lie, land, slope down, be · **To what, where:** highest ridges, length, home

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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 (peak, green pasture, 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:pg27200:55:90
# text = At length he had crossed the highest ridges, and before him lay the green pasture lands sloping down towards the valley, which was once his home.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past · perfect | peak | the highest ridges |  | length |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | past | peak |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **land** | present | the green pasture |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slope down** | gerund | the green pasture *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the valley and peak's home; down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the valley and peak's home | peak's home |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |

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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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