--- title: In the royal city of Bavaria, many years after the bell had been rem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the royal city of Bavaria, many years after the bell had been removed from the tower and melted down, some metal was required for a monument in honor of one of the most celebrated characters which a German people or a German land could produce. Who acts: German people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/) / 63 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 63 In the royal city of Bavaria, many years after the bell had been removed from the tower and melted down, some metal was required for a monument in honor of one of the most celebrated characters which a German people or a German land could produce. **Who acts:** German people · **What happens:** remove, melt down, require, celebrate, produce · **To what, where:** tower, metal, royal city, celebrated characters This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:129:63 # text = In the royal city of Bavaria, many years after the bell had been removed from the tower and melted down, some metal was required for a monument in honor of one of the most celebrated characters which a German people or a German land could produce. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Bavaria Bavaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 monument monument NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 37 advmod _ _ 37 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 obj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 47 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | past · perfect · passive | | | | the tower | year | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: from tower=Source | | 2 | **melt down** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **require** | past · passive | | some metal | | the royal city of Bavaria | | for a monument; in honor of one of the celebrated characters | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | | 4 | **celebrate** | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **produce** | could | a German people or a German land | the celebrated characters | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/64/) - ↑ back to [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/)