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title: The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm-tree with leaves of g… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm-tree with leaves of glass, of costly glass; and in the middle, from a thick golden stem, hung two beds, each of which resembled a lily. Who acts: ceiling, each. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its d
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 104

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The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm-tree with leaves of glass, of costly glass; and in the middle, from a thick golden stem, hung two beds, each of which resembled a lily.

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**Who acts:** ceiling, each · **What happens:** resemble, hang · **To what, where:** large palm tree, two beds, middle, lily

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceiling, each), 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:pg1597:13:104
# text = The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm-tree with leaves of glass, of costly glass; and in the middle, from a thick golden stem, hung two beds, each of which resembled a lily.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
32	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nmod	_	_
39	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | past | the ceiling of the room | a large palm tree |  |  |  | with leaves of glass; of costly glass | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | past |  | two beds |  | the middle and a thick golden stem |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 3 | **resemble** | past | each | a lily |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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