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title: [*] The white dove of innocence fluttered over the altar. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [*] The white dove of innocence fluttered over the altar. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 71

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\[\*\] The white dove of innocence fluttered over the altar.

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**What happens:** flutter · **To what, where:** white dove, altar

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:7:71
# text = [*] The white dove of innocence fluttered over the altar.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flutter** | participle |  | the white dove of innocence *not said here* |  | the altar |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over altar=Location |

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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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