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title: This wilderness is still an immense wild heath of marshy ground, abo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This wilderness is still an immense wild heath of marshy ground, about which we can read in the "Official Directory." Who acts: wilderness, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 7

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This wilderness is still an immense wild heath of marshy ground, about which we can read in the "Official Directory."

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**Who acts:** wilderness, we · **What happens:** be, read · **To what, where:** immense wild heath, Official Directory

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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 (wilderness, we), 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:pg27200:83:7
# text = This wilderness is still an immense wild heath of marshy ground, about which we can read in the "Official Directory."
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Directory	Directory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this wilderness | a immense wild heath |  |  | still | of marshy ground | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | can | we |  |  | the Official Directory |  | about a immense wild heath | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about which=Topic |

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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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