--- title: The surface of the island is rocky; and about a hundred years ago, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The surface of the island is rocky; and about a hundred years ago, a lady caused the ground to be covered with earth, in which three acacia-trees were planted, and the whole enclosed with stone walls. Who acts: surface, lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surface, lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:61:11 # text = The surface of the island is rocky; and about a hundred years ago, a lady caused the ground to be covered with earth, in which three acacia-trees were planted, and the whole enclosed with stone walls. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 29 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 30 acacia acacia NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 planted plant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 enclosed enclose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the surface of the island | | | | | ago, rocky *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | past | a lady | the ground | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ground=Patient | | 3 | **cover** | to-infinitive · passive | a lady *not said here* | | | | | with earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with earth=Theme | | 4 | **plant** | past · passive | | three acacia trees | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | | 5 | **enclose** | participle | the surface of the island *not said here* | the whole | | | | with stone walls | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/61/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/61/12/) - ↑ back to [X. the Godmother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/61/)