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title: The statue represented in living, breathing reality, the form of him… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The statue represented in living, breathing reality, the form of him who was born in poverty, the boy from Marbach, the pupil of the military school, the fugitive who struggled against poverty and oppression, from the outer world; Germany's great and immortal poet, who sung of Switzerland's delivere
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 72

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The statue represented in living, breathing reality, the form of him who was born in poverty, the boy from Marbach, the pupil of the military school, the fugitive who struggled against poverty and oppression, from the outer world; Germany's great and immortal poet, who sung of Switzerland's deliverer, William Tell, and of the heaven-inspired Maid of Orleans.

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**Who acts:** statue, fugitive, great poet · **What happens:** represent, breathe, bear, struggle, sing, tell · **To what, where:** statue, reality, form, poverty, outer world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (statue, fugitive, great poet), 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:pg27200:129:72
# text = The statue represented in living, breathing reality, the form of him who was born in poverty, the boy from Marbach, the pupil of the military school, the fugitive who struggled against poverty and oppression, from the outer world; Germany's great and immortal poet, who sung of Switzerland's deliverer, William Tell, and of the heaven-inspired Maid of Orleans.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
3	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
8	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Marbach	Marbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fugitive	fugitive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	against	against	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	_
51	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
54	sung	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	's	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	_
61	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
66	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	69	amod	_	_
69	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	ccomp	_	_
70	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
71	Orleans	Orleans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	69	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	61	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | participle |  | the statue and Germany's great poet *not said here* |  |  |  | in living | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in living=Attribute |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund | the statue and Germany's great poet *not said here* | reality |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reality=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the form of statue |  | poverty and the pupil of the military school and the fugitive |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **struggle** | past | the fugitive |  |  | the outer world |  | against poverty and oppression | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Germany's great poet |  |  |  |  | of Switzerland's deliverer | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the statue and Germany's great poet |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **inspire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | statue |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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