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title: St. Florian was represented pouring water on the burning house, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: St. Florian was represented pouring water on the burning house, and the Lord hung bleeding on the great cross by the wayside. Who acts: Lord. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 3

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St. Florian was represented pouring water on the burning house, and the Lord hung bleeding on the great cross by the wayside.

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** represent, pour, hang, bleed · **To what, where:** St., water, burning house, great cross

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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 (Lord), 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:pg27200:113:3
# text = St. Florian was represented pouring water on the burning house, and the Lord hung bleeding on the great cross by the wayside.
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Florian	Florian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | past · passive |  | St. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | gerund |  | water |  | the burning house |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the Lord |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bleed** | gerund | the Lord *not said here* |  |  | the great cross |  | by the wayside | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on cross=Destination |

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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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