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title: Her picture hung in the chapel, surrounded by silver lamps; but it d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her picture hung in the chapel, surrounded by silver lamps; but it did not in the least resemble Molly. Who acts: picture, chapel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 92

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Her picture hung in the chapel, surrounded by silver lamps; but it did not in the least resemble Molly.

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**Who acts:** picture, chapel · **What happens:** hang, surround, not resemble · **To what, where:** chapel, Molly

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (picture, chapel), 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:pg27200:128:92
# text = Her picture hung in the chapel, surrounded by silver lamps; but it did not in the least resemble Molly.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nsubj	_	_
20	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | Elizabeth's picture |  |  | the chapel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chapel=Location |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  | the chapel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **resemble** | past · do-support | chapel | Molly |  |  |  |  | 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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