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description: We went to the temple of Venus, built of snow-white marble, with its high altar in front of the broad steps, and the weeping willows sprouting freshly forth among the pillars. Who acts: We, weeping. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 7

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We went to the temple of Venus, built of snow-white marble, with its high altar in front of the broad steps, and the weeping willows sprouting freshly forth among the pillars.

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**Who acts:** We, weeping · **What happens:** go, build, willow, sprout · **To what, where:** temple, Venus, pillars

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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 (We, weeping), 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:pg27200:102:7
# text = We went to the temple of Venus, built of snow-white marble, with its high altar in front of the broad steps, and the weeping willows sprouting freshly forth among the pillars.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	willows	willow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	sprouting	sprout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	freshly	freshly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | past | We |  |  | the temple of Venus |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | Venus *not said here* |  |  |  | of snow white marble | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **willow** | present | the weeping |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sprout** | gerund | the weeping *not said here* |  |  | the pillars |  | forth *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among pillar=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:** «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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