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title: On the wall, above the grave of each, is placed the emblem of earthl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 4

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On the wall, above the grave of each, is placed the emblem of earthly grandeur, a kingly crown; but it is made only of wood, painted and gilt, and is hung on a wooden peg driven into the wall.

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**What happens:** place, make, paint, hang, drive · **To what, where:** emblem, wall, wood, wooden peg

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth 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:pg27200:119:4
# text = On the wall, above the grave of each, is placed the emblem of earthly grandeur, a kingly crown; but it is made only of wood, painted and gilt, and is hung on a wooden peg driven into the wall.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	emblem	emblem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	gilt	gilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	peg	peg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **place** | present · passive |  | the emblem of earthly grandeur and a kingly crown |  | the wall |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: emblem=Theme on wall=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | emblem |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hang** | present · passive |  |  |  | a wooden peg |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on peg=Location |
| 5 | **drive** | participle |  | a wooden peg *not said here* |  | the wall |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into wall=Trajectory |

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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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