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title: Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the mu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the murmuring river flowing through them, and dotted here and there were small wooden houses. Who acts: life, murmuring river, small wooden houses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 96

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Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the murmuring river flowing through them, and dotted here and there were small wooden houses.

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**Who acts:** life, murmuring river, small wooden houses · **What happens:** lie, cover, flow, dot, be · **To what, where:** meadows

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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 (life, murmuring river, small wooden houses), 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:pg27200:55:96
# text = Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the murmuring river flowing through them, and dotted here and there were small wooden houses.
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dotted	dot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | life | the meadows |  |  |  | with the murmuring river | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meadow=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | the meadows *not said here* |  |  |  | green *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | the murmuring river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through meadows *= meadow* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location |
| 4 | **dot** | past |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past | small wooden houses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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