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title: The naked earth peers through in the form of great letters and names… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The naked earth peers through in the form of great letters and names; these form a network over the whole hill. Who acts: naked earth, these. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 6

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The naked earth peers through in the form of great letters and names; these form a network over the whole hill.

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**Who acts:** naked earth, these · **What happens:** peer, form · **To what, where:** network, whole hill, great letters

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (naked earth, these), 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:pg27200:97:6
# text = The naked earth peers through in the form of great letters and names; these form a network over the whole hill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	peers	peer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peer** | present | the naked earth |  |  |  |  | through the form of great letters and names | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through form=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | present | these | a network |  | the whole hill |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location network=Theme |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | great letters and names |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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