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title: I looked at the pictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I looked at the pictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus that are painted there upon the walls of the houses, colossal figures reaching from the ground to the roof. Who acts: I, Christopher, colossal figures. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 2

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I looked at the pictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus that are painted there upon the walls of the houses, colossal figures reaching from the ground to the roof.

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**Who acts:** I, Christopher, colossal figures · **What happens:** look, carry, paint, reach · **To what, where:** Infant Jesus, walls, ground

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Christopher, colossal figures), 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:pg27200:113:2
# text = I looked at the pictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus that are painted there upon the walls of the houses, colossal figures reaching from the ground to the roof.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
26	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	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 | **look** | past | I |  |  |  |  | at the pictures of Christopher  St. | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | Christopher  St. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **paint** | present · passive |  | the Infant Jesus |  | the walls of the houses; there |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon wall=Destination |
| 4 | **reach** | gerund | colossal figures *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | to the roof | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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