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title: It may well be called the Wild Moor; and one can easily imagine, wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It may well be called the Wild Moor; and one can easily imagine, with such a wild expanse of marsh and lake, how lonely and dreary it must have been a thousand years ago. Who acts: one, place. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 10

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It may well be called the Wild Moor; and one can easily imagine, with such a wild expanse of marsh and lake, how lonely and dreary it must have been a thousand years ago.

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**Who acts:** one, place · **What happens:** call, imagine, be · **To what, where:** place, thousand years · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, place), 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:pg27200:83:10
# text = It may well be called the Wild Moor; and one can easily imagine, with such a wild expanse of marsh and lake, how lonely and dreary it must have been a thousand years ago.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	8	flat	_	_
8	Moor	Moor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	expanse	expanse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	parataxis	_	_
37	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | may · passive |  | place |  |  |  | well *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **imagine** | can | one |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is a** | must · perfect | place | thousand years |  |  |  | ago *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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