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title: But instead of a book, it was a work of art contained in a casket, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But instead of a book, it was a work of art contained in a casket, an artificial nightingale made to look like a living one, and covered all over with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires. Who acts: doubt, artificial nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 78

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But instead of a book, it was a work of art contained in a casket, an artificial nightingale made to look like a living one, and covered all over with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.

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**Who acts:** doubt, artificial nightingale · **What happens:** be, contain, make, look, live, cover · **To what, where:** work, art, casket, artificial nightingale

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, artificial nightingale), 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:pg27200:125:78
# text = But instead of a book, it was a work of art contained in a casket, an artificial nightingale made to look like a living one, and covered all over with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | doubt | a work |  |  |  | of art | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | art *not said here* |  | a casket |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in casket=Location |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a artificial nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | a artificial nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a living one | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | past |  |  |  |  |  | instead a book; with diamonds and rubies and sapphires; over *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=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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