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title: He was therefore put into the melting-furnace and changed into as el… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was therefore put into the melting-furnace and changed into as elegant an iron candlestick as you could wish to see, one intended to hold a wax taper. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 113

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He was therefore put into the melting-furnace and changed into as elegant an iron candlestick as you could wish to see, one intended to hold a wax taper.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, change, wish, see, intend, hold · **To what, where:** gift, melting furnace, iron candlestick, one, wax taper

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:133:113
# text = He was therefore put into the melting-furnace and changed into as elegant an iron candlestick as you could wish to see, one intended to hold a wax taper.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	melting	melting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	taper	taper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | gift |  | the melting furnace |  | therefore *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wish** | could | you | a iron candlestick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **intend** | participle · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a wax taper |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=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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