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title: That is not a fairy palace you see before you yonder, but a church:… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That is not a fairy palace you see before you yonder, but a church: the gilded domes and shining orbs flash back my beams; the glorious bronze horses up yonder have made journeys, like the bronze horse in the fairy tale: they have come hither, and gone hence, and have returned again. Who acts: That,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 14

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That is not a fairy palace you see before you yonder, but a church: the gilded domes and shining orbs flash back my beams; the glorious bronze horses up yonder have made journeys, like the bronze horse in the fairy tale: they have come hither, and gone hence, and have returned again.

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**Who acts:** That, you, gilded domes, domes, my · **What happens:** not be, see, gild, shine, flash back, make · **To what, where:** fairy palace, beams, glorious bronze horses

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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 (That, you, gilded domes, domes), 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:pg27200:108:14
# text = That is not a fairy palace you see before you yonder, but a church: the gilded domes and shining orbs flash back my beams; the glorious bronze horses up yonder have made journeys, like the bronze horse in the fairy tale: they have come hither, and gone hence, and have returned again.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	domes	dome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	orbs	orb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	flash	flash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
36	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
50	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	_
54	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | That | a fairy palace but a church |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | you | a fairy palace but a church *not said here* |  |  | before you | yonder *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flash back** | present | the gilded domes and shining orbs | my beams |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beam=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | the glorious bronze horses |  |  |  | like the bronze horse in the fairy tale | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary journey=Product |
| 7 | **come** | present · perfect | domes *= dome* |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **return** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **beam** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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