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title: Here were portraits, each one appearing more beautiful than the othe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here were portraits, each one appearing more beautiful than the other--millions of happy beings, whose laughter and song mingled in one sweet melody: some of these were in such an elevated position that they appeared smaller than the smallest rosebud, or like pencil dots on paper. Who acts: one, mil
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 184

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Here were portraits, each one appearing more beautiful than the other--millions of happy beings, whose laughter and song mingled in one sweet melody: some of these were in such an elevated position that they appeared smaller than the smallest rosebud, or like pencil dots on paper.

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**Who acts:** one, millions, some · **What happens:** be, appear, mingle, elevate · **To what, where:** portraits, one sweet melody, elevated position

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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 (one, millions, some), 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:pg27200:140:184
# text = Here were portraits, each one appearing more beautiful than the other--millions of happy beings, whose laughter and song mingled in one sweet melody: some of these were in such an elevated position that they appeared smaller than the smallest rosebud, or like pencil dots on paper.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	portraits	portrait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	nmod	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	elevated	elevate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	xcomp	_	_
42	than	than	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	amod	_	_
45	rosebud	rosebud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	appos	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | portraits |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | gerund | each one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mingle** | past | millions of happy beings |  |  | one sweet melody |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **elevate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | some |  |  | such elevated position |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **appear** | past | millions *= million* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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