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title: Instead of the forest and the green hills of former days, I had here… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of the forest and the green hills of former days, I had here only a forest of chimney-pots to look out upon. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 5

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Instead of the forest and the green hills of former days, I had here only a forest of chimney-pots to look out upon.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, look out · **To what, where:** forest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:91:5
# text = Instead of the forest and the green hills of former days, I had here only a forest of chimney-pots to look out upon.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | a forest of chimney pots |  | here |  | instead the forest and the green hills of former days | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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