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title: Now we are near the church; it stands on a high hill, under the spre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now we are near the church; it stands on a high hill, under the spreading oak trees; one of them is half dead! Who acts: we, church, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 76

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Now we are near the church; it stands on a high hill, under the spreading oak trees; one of them is half dead!

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**Who acts:** we, church, one · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** church, high hill

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, church, one), 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:pg27200:72:76
# text = Now we are near the church; it stands on a high hill, under the spreading oak trees; one of them is half dead!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	advmod	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | we |  |  | the church | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | present | church |  |  | a high hill |  | under the oak trees | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | one of hens |  |  |  |  | dead, half *property* | tree rules |

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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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