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title: Beyond this stood her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Beyond this stood her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in which all the trees and flowers were polypi, half animals and half plants; they looked like serpents with a hundred heads growing out of the ground. Who acts: this, centre, trees, hundred heads. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 82

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Beyond this stood her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in which all the trees and flowers were polypi, half animals and half plants; they looked like serpents with a hundred heads growing out of the ground.

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**Who acts:** this, centre, trees, hundred heads · **What happens:** stand, be, look, grow out · **To what, where:** house, centre, polypi, ground

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, centre, trees, hundred heads), 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:pg27200:76:82
# text = Beyond this stood her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in which all the trees and flowers were polypi, half animals and half plants; they looked like serpents with a hundred heads growing out of the ground.
1	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	polypi	polypi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	compound	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	compound	_	_
29	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
39	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | this | mermaid's house |  | the centre of a strange forest |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in centre=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the centre of a strange forest | polypi and half animals and half plants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | like serpents with hundred heads | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grow out** | gerund | hundred heads *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=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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