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title: In these the silent Turk sits smoking his long pipe, the handsome Gr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In these the silent Turk sits smoking his long pipe, the handsome Greek leans against the pillar and gazes at the upraised trophies and lofty masts, memorials of power that is gone. Who acts: handsome Greek, power. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 11

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In these the silent Turk sits smoking his long pipe, the handsome Greek leans against the pillar and gazes at the upraised trophies and lofty masts, memorials of power that is gone.

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**Who acts:** handsome Greek, power · **What happens:** sit, smoke, lean, gaze, upraise, be · **To what, where:** silent Turk, long pipe, pillar

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome Greek, power), 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:pg27200:108:11
# text = In these the silent Turk sits smoking his long pipe, the handsome Greek leans against the pillar and gazes at the upraised trophies and lofty masts, memorials of power that is gone.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Turk	Turk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
15	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gazes	gaze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	upraised	upraise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	trophies	trophy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	memorials	memorial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | this silent Turk |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smoke** | gerund |  | grass's long pipe |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |
| 3 | **lean** | present | the handsome Greek |  |  | the pillar |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pillar=Location |
| 4 | **gaze** | present | the handsome Greek *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the upraised trophies and lofty masts and memorials of power | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trophy=Theme |
| 5 | **upraise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | power |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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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