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title: The stage still stood unchanged, with its walled side-scenes, and th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The stage still stood unchanged, with its walled side-scenes, and the two arches in the background, through which the beholders saw the same scene that had been exhibited in the old times--a scene painted by nature herself, namely, the mountains between Sorento and Amalfi. Who acts: stage, beholders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 13

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The stage still stood unchanged, with its walled side-scenes, and the two arches in the background, through which the beholders saw the same scene that had been exhibited in the old times--a scene painted by nature herself, namely, the mountains between Sorento and Amalfi.

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**Who acts:** stage, beholders, scene · **What happens:** stand, wall, see, exhibit, paint · **To what, where:** two arches, same scene, audience

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stage, beholders, scene), 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:pg27200:102:13
# text = The stage still stood unchanged, with its walled side-scenes, and the two arches in the background, through which the beholders saw the same scene that had been exhibited in the old times--a scene painted by nature herself, namely, the mountains between Sorento and Amalfi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	beholders	beholder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	exhibited	exhibit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
41	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	namely	namely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
50	between	between	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Sorento	Sorento	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	Amalfi	Amalfi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the stage | the two arches in the background |  |  | still | with stage's walled side scenes; unchanged *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | the beholders | the same scene |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scene=Stimulus |
| 4 | **exhibit** | past · perfect · passive |  | the same scene |  |  | time |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: that=Theme |
| 5 | **paint** | participle | a scene *not said here* | audience |  |  |  | by nature | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by nature=Destination |

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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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