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title: A marble bridge, of such exquisite workmanship that it appeared as i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A marble bridge, of such exquisite workmanship that it appeared as if formed of lace and pearls, led to the island of happiness, in which bloomed the garden of paradise. Who acts: it, marble bridge, garden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Parad
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 165

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A marble bridge, of such exquisite workmanship that it appeared as if formed of lace and pearls, led to the island of happiness, in which bloomed the garden of paradise.

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**Who acts:** it, marble bridge, garden · **What happens:** appear, form, lead, bloom · **To what, where:** such exquisite workmanship, island

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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 (it, marble bridge, garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:8955`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:140:165
# text = A marble bridge, of such exquisite workmanship that it appeared as if formed of lace and pearls, led to the island of happiness, in which bloomed the garden of paradise.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
20	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
29	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | it | such exquisite workmanship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location workmanship=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of lace and pearls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | a marble bridge of such exquisite workmanship |  |  |  |  | to the island of happiness | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to island=Patient |
| 4 | **bloom** | past | the garden of paradise |  |  | the island of happiness |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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