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title: Sometimes the forests were thick and dark, sometimes like a beautifu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the forests were thick and dark, sometimes like a beautiful garden, gay with sunshine and flowers; then he passed great palaces of glass and of marble, and on the balconies stood princesses, whose faces were those of little girls whom Hjalmar knew well, and had often played with. Who acts:
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 43

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Sometimes the forests were thick and dark, sometimes like a beautiful garden, gay with sunshine and flowers; then he passed great palaces of glass and of marble, and on the balconies stood princesses, whose faces were those of little girls whom Hjalmar knew well, and had often played with.

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**Who acts:** forests, Hjalmar, faces · **What happens:** be, pass, stand, know, play · **To what, where:** great palaces, princesses, balconies, those, little girls

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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 (forests, Hjalmar, faces), 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:pg27200:134:43
# text = Sometimes the forests were thick and dark, sometimes like a beautiful garden, gay with sunshine and flowers; then he passed great palaces of glass and of marble, and on the balconies stood princesses, whose faces were those of little girls whom Hjalmar knew well, and had often played with.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	balconies	balcony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
36	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
37	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	appos	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	obj	_	_
47	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	often	often	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the forests |  |  |  |  | sometimes, thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the forests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past | Hjalmar | great palaces of glass and marble |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Hjalmar *not said here* | princesses |  | the balconies |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on balcony=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | past | faces | those |  |  |  | of little girls | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | past | Hjalmar | little girls |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 7 | **play** | past · perfect | Hjalmar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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