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title: When the piece was over, I saw a form wrapped in a mantle, creeping… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When the piece was over, I saw a form wrapped in a mantle, creeping down the steps: it was the vanquished knight of the evening. Who acts: piece, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 10

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When the piece was over, I saw a form wrapped in a mantle, creeping down the steps: it was the vanquished knight of the evening.

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**Who acts:** piece, I · **What happens:** be, see, wrap, creep, vanquish · **To what, where:** form, mantle, vanquished knight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, I), 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:pg27200:109:10
# text = When the piece was over, I saw a form wrapped in a mantle, creeping down the steps: it was the vanquished knight of the evening.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the piece |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | a form |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wrap** | participle |  | a form *not said here* |  | a mantle |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mantle=Destination |
| 4 | **creep** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down the steps | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory |
| 5 | **vanquish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | piece | the vanquished knight |  |  | evening |  | 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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