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title: The road lay amidst brushwood and underwood, over rolling stones, al… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The road lay amidst brushwood and underwood, over rolling stones, always upwards higher and higher in the dark night. Who acts: road. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 16

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The road lay amidst brushwood and underwood, over rolling stones, always upwards higher and higher in the dark night.

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**Who acts:** road · **What happens:** lie, roll · **To what, where:** amidst brushwood, rolling stones

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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:pg27200:58:16
# text = The road lay amidst brushwood and underwood, over rolling stones, always upwards higher and higher in the dark night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	amidst	amidst	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	underwood	underwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
14	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the road | amidst brushwood and underwood |  | rolling stones |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brushwood=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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