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title: If on the glasses there stood written 'oblivion,' on the barrel 'rem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If on the glasses there stood written 'oblivion,' on the barrel 'remembrance' is inscribed. Who acts: glasses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 46

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If on the glasses there stood written 'oblivion,' on the barrel 'remembrance' is inscribed.

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**Who acts:** glasses · **What happens:** stand, write, inscribe · **To what, where:** written oblivion, remembrance, barrel

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glasses), 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:pg27200:138:46
# text = If on the glasses there stood written 'oblivion,' on the barrel 'remembrance' is inscribed.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	oblivion	oblivion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the glasses | written oblivion |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oblivion=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **inscribe** | present · passive |  | remembrance |  | the barrel |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on barrel=Destination |

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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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