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title: It was a coarse wood-cut, representing a splendid meteor “as seen in… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a coarse wood-cut, representing a splendid meteor “as seen in the town of Cologne,” which was to be read below in bright letters. Who acts: paper. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 109

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It was a coarse wood-cut, representing a splendid meteor “as seen in the town of Cologne,” which was to be read below in bright letters.

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**Who acts:** paper · **What happens:** be, represent, see, read · **To what, where:** coarse wood cut, splendid meteor, town, bright letters

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paper), 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:pg1597:5:109
# text = It was a coarse wood-cut, representing a splendid meteor “as seen in the town of Cologne,” which was to be read below in bright letters.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Cologne	Cologne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
28	below	below	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | paper | a coarse wood cut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | gerund | paper *not said here* | a splendid meteor |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meteor=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | participle | paper *not said here* |  |  | the town of Cologne |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **read** | past · passive |  | a coarse wood cut |  | bright letters |  | below *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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