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title: The blocks of stone assumed a misty appearance, till at last they lo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The blocks of stone assumed a misty appearance, till at last they looked like white clouds in moonlight. Who acts: blocks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 161

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The blocks of stone assumed a misty appearance, till at last they looked like white clouds in moonlight.

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**Who acts:** blocks · **What happens:** assume, look · **To what, where:** misty appearance

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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 (blocks), 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:pg27200:140:161
# text = The blocks of stone assumed a misty appearance, till at last they looked like white clouds in moonlight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | past | the blocks of stone | a misty appearance |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | blocks *= block* |  |  |  |  | like white clouds in moonlight; at last | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=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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