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title: Here, under the walnut-trees, by the deep blue lake, sat Byron, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, under the walnut-trees, by the deep blue lake, sat Byron, and wrote his melodious verses about the prisoner confined in the gloomy castle of Chillon. Who acts: Byron. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 8

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Here, under the walnut-trees, by the deep blue lake, sat Byron, and wrote his melodious verses about the prisoner confined in the gloomy castle of Chillon.

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**Who acts:** Byron · **What happens:** sit, write, confine, verse · **To what, where:** Byron, walnut trees, melodious verses, prisoner, gloomy castle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Byron), 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:pg27200:61:8
# text = Here, under the walnut-trees, by the deep blue lake, sat Byron, and wrote his melodious verses about the prisoner confined in the gloomy castle of Chillon.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Byron	Byron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Chillon	Chillon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | Byron |  | the walnut trees and the deep blue lake; here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent byron=Theme under tree=Location |
| 2 | **write** | past |  | Byron's melodious verses |  |  |  | about the prisoner | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent verse=Recipient about prisoner=Topic |
| 3 | **confine** | participle |  | the prisoner *not said here* |  | the gloomy castle of Chillon |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in castle=Destination |
| 4 | **verse** |  | Byron |  |  |  |  |  | nom verse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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