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title: Your house will exalt itself like King Waldemar's tower, and will be… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Your house will exalt itself like King Waldemar's tower, and will be richly decorated with marble statues, like that at Prastoe. Who acts: house. 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 82

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Your house will exalt itself like King Waldemar's tower, and will be richly decorated with marble statues, like that at Prastoe.

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**Who acts:** house · **What happens:** exalt, decorate · **To what, where:** yard

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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 (house), 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:pg1597:25:82
# text = Your house will exalt itself like King Waldemar's tower, and will be richly decorated with marble statues, like that at Prastoe.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	exalt	exalt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Prastoe	Prastoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exalt** | future | Your house | yard |  |  |  | like King's tower | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer itself=Stimulus |
| 2 | **decorate** | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with marble statues like that; richly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with statue=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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