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title: As they passed on through this wonderful cave, the prince could see… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As they passed on through this wonderful cave, the prince could see great blocks of stone, from which water trickled, hanging over their heads in fantastic shapes. Who acts: Winds, prince, water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 156

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As they passed on through this wonderful cave, the prince could see great blocks of stone, from which water trickled, hanging over their heads in fantastic shapes.

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**Who acts:** Winds, prince, water · **What happens:** pass on, see, trickle, hang · **To what, where:** wonderful cave, great blocks, heads

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winds, prince, water), 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:pg27200:140:156
# text = As they passed on through this wonderful cave, the prince could see great blocks of stone, from which water trickled, hanging over their heads in fantastic shapes.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	trickled	trickle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass on** | past | Winds *= wind* |  |  | this wonderful cave |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | could | the prince | great blocks of stone |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer block=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trickle** | past | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from which=Source |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  | Winds's heads |  | in fantastic shapes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=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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