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title: Above all the rest stood Fo, the chief deity, clad in a garment of y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Above all the rest stood Fo, the chief deity, clad in a garment of yellow silk, for yellow is here the sacred colour. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 9

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Above all the rest stood Fo, the chief deity, clad in a garment of yellow silk, for yellow is here the sacred colour.

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**What happens:** stand, clad, be · **To what, where:** Fo, rest, chief deity, garment, sacred colour

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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:pg27200:117:9
# text = Above all the rest stood Fo, the chief deity, clad in a garment of yellow silk, for yellow is here the sacred colour.
1	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Fo	Fo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	yellow	yellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Fo |  | all rest |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fo=Theme above rest=Destination |
| 2 | **clad** | participle |  | the chief deity *not said here* |  | a garment of yellow silk |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the sacred colour |  | here |  | for yellow | 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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