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title: "Along the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeche… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Along the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeches, and fresh and fragrant is this wood; hundreds of nightingales visit it every spring. Who acts: hundreds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 1

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"Along the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeches, and fresh and fragrant is this wood; hundreds of nightingales visit it every spring.

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**Who acts:** hundreds · **What happens:** stretch, be, visit · **To what, where:** forest, fresh wood

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds), 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:pg27200:98:1
# text = "Along the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeches, and fresh and fragrant is this wood; hundreds of nightingales visit it every spring.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	firs	fir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** *in a quote* | present |  | a forest of firs and beeches |  |  |  | along the margin of the shore | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this fresh wood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** *in a quote* | present | hundreds of nightingales | forest |  |  | spring |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-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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