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title: At the farther end of the city, on the flat roof paved with porcelai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the farther end of the city, on the flat roof paved with porcelain, on which stood the handsome vases covered with painted flowers, sat the beauteous Pu, of the little roguish eyes, of the full lips, and of the tiny feet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 20

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At the farther end of the city, on the flat roof paved with porcelain, on which stood the handsome vases covered with painted flowers, sat the beauteous Pu, of the little roguish eyes, of the full lips, and of the tiny feet.

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**What happens:** pave, stand, cover, paint, sit · **To what, where:** flat roof, handsome vases, beauteous Pu

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:117:20
# text = At the farther end of the city, on the flat roof paved with porcelain, on which stood the handsome vases covered with painted flowers, sat the beauteous Pu, of the little roguish eyes, of the full lips, and of the tiny feet.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Pu	Pu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	roguish	roguish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pave** | participle |  | the flat roof *not said here* |  |  |  | with porcelain | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with porcelain=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the handsome vases |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vas=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | the handsome vases *not said here* |  |  |  | with painted flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |
| 4 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | past |  | the beauteous Pu |  |  |  | of the little roguish eyes; of the full lips | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pu=Theme |

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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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