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title: On thy glowing canvas let them be painted--the dark legends of the r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On thy glowing canvas let them be painted--the dark legends of the rough hard times that are past! Who acts: you, canvas, rough hard times. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 138

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On thy glowing canvas let them be painted--the dark legends of the rough hard times that are past!

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**Who acts:** you, canvas, rough hard times · **What happens:** glow, let, paint, be · **To what, where:** canvas, glowing canvas

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, canvas, rough hard times), 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:pg27200:12:138
# text = On thy glowing canvas let them be painted--the dark legends of the rough hard times that are past!
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	canvas	canva	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | canvas *= canva* |  | thy glowing canvas |  | the dark legends of the rough hard times *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **paint** | infinitive · passive | canvas *= canva* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | present | the rough hard times |  |  |  |  | past *property* | 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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