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title: * Herostratus, or Eratostratus--an Ephesian, who wantonly set fire t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: * Herostratus, or Eratostratus--an Ephesian, who wantonly set fire to the famous temple of Diana, in order to commemorate his name by so uncommon an action. Who acts: Diana. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 1

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\* Herostratus, or Eratostratus--an Ephesian, who wantonly set fire to the famous temple of Diana, in order to commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.

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**Who acts:** Diana · **What happens:** set, commemorate, name · **To what, where:** Herostratus, name

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diana), 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:pg1597:6:1
# text = * Herostratus, or Eratostratus--an Ephesian, who wantonly set fire to the famous temple of Diana, in order to commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Herostratus	herostratus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Eratostratus	Eratostratus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ephesian	Ephesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	wantonly	wantonly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Diana	Diana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	fixed	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	commemorate	commemorate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past |  | Herostratus |  |  |  | to the famous temple of Diana; wantonly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
| 2 | **commemorate** | to-infinitive |  | Diana's name |  |  |  | by a uncommon action | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  | Diana |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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