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title: One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the castle once stood. Who acts: remains, castle. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 35

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One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the castle once stood.

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**Who acts:** remains, castle · **What happens:** show, stand

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remains, castle), 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:pg1597:25:35
# text = One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the castle once stood.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	solitary	solitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** |  | some remains of a wall |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the castle |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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