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title: He was so high up that the large trees beneath him, with their thick… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was so high up that the large trees beneath him, with their thick foliage, appeared like garden plants, and the pines and bushes even less. Who acts: Maiden, thick foliage. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 3

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He was so high up that the large trees beneath him, with their thick foliage, appeared like garden plants, and the pines and bushes even less.

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**Who acts:** Maiden, thick foliage · **What happens:** be, appear

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, thick foliage), 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:pg27200:63:3
# text = He was so high up that the large trees beneath him, with their thick foliage, appeared like garden plants, and the pines and bushes even less.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Maiden |  |  |  |  | up the large trees beneath Rudy; the pines and bushes *obl*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | trees's thick foliage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like garden plants | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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