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title: For his monument, he had the floating, ever-changing icebergs, where… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For his monument, he had the floating, ever-changing icebergs, whereon the seal sleeps, while the storm bird flies round their gleaming summits!" Who acts: man, seal, storm bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 28

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For his monument, he had the floating, ever-changing icebergs, whereon the seal sleeps, while the storm bird flies round their gleaming summits!"

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**Who acts:** man, seal, storm bird · **What happens:** have, change, sleep, fly · **To what, where:** floating, icebergs, gleaming summits

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, seal, storm bird), 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:pg27200:100:28
# text = For his monument, he had the floating, ever-changing icebergs, whereon the seal sleeps, while the storm bird flies round their gleaming summits!"
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floating	floating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	gleaming	gleaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | man | the floating |  |  |  | for man's monument | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floating=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | gerund | man *not said here* | icebergs |  |  | ever |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iceberg=Patient |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | the seal |  |  |  |  | whereon *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | present | the storm bird |  |  | bird's gleaming summits |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round summit=Trajectory |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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