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title: Over the chest of drawers hung a large picture in a gilt frame, repr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the chest of drawers hung a large picture in a gilt frame, representing a landscape, with fine old trees, flowers in the grass, and a broad stream, which flowed through the wood, past several castles, far out into the wild ocean. Who acts: broad stream. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 34

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Over the chest of drawers hung a large picture in a gilt frame, representing a landscape, with fine old trees, flowers in the grass, and a broad stream, which flowed through the wood, past several castles, far out into the wild ocean.

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**Who acts:** broad stream · **What happens:** hang, represent, flow · **To what, where:** large picture, chest, landscape, wood

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (broad stream), 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:pg27200:134:34
# text = Over the chest of drawers hung a large picture in a gilt frame, representing a landscape, with fine old trees, flowers in the grass, and a broad stream, which flowed through the wood, past several castles, far out into the wild ocean.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	gilt	gilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	past	past	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
45	out	out	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past |  | a large picture |  | the chest of drawers |  | in a gilt frame; a broad stream *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme over chest=Destination |
| 2 | **represent** | gerund |  | a landscape and fine old trees in the grass and flowers |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot landscape=Theme |
| 3 | **flow** | past | a broad stream |  |  | the wood |  | past several castles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location |

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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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