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title: Close beside it is the sea, the ever-changing sea, and between the t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Close beside it is the sea, the ever-changing sea, and between the two is placed the broad high-road. Who acts: you, forest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 2

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Close beside it is the sea, the ever-changing sea, and between the two is placed the broad high-road.

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**Who acts:** you, forest · **What happens:** close, be, change, place · **To what, where:** sea, two

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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 (you, forest), 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:pg27200:98:2
# text = Close beside it is the sea, the ever-changing sea, and between the two is placed the broad high-road.
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | forest |  |  | the sea and the changing sea |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | gerund |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **place** | present · passive |  | the two |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme road=Destination |

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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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