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title: It was of pure gold, and the arms of the Prince and Princess shone l… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was of pure gold, and the arms of the Prince and Princess shone like a star upon it; the coachman, the footmen, and the outriders, for outriders were there, too, all wore golden crowns. Who acts: carriage, arms, outriders, coachman. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Sn
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 123

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It was of pure gold, and the arms of the Prince and Princess shone like a star upon it; the coachman, the footmen, and the outriders, for outriders were there, too, all wore golden crowns.

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**Who acts:** carriage, arms, outriders, coachman · **What happens:** be, shine, wear · **To what, where:** carriage, golden crowns

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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 (carriage, arms, outriders, coachman), 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:pg1597:13:123
# text = It was of pure gold, and the arms of the Prince and Princess shone like a star upon it; the coachman, the footmen, and the outriders, for outriders were there, too, all wore golden crowns.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	footmen	footman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	outriders	outrider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	outriders	outrider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
40	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
41	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | carriage |  |  |  |  | of pure gold | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the arms of the Prince and Princess |  |  | carriage |  | like a star | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the outriders and outriders |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wear** | past | the coachman and the footmen | golden crowns |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |

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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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