--- title: Beautiful maidens, slender and graceful in form, and robed in transp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Beautiful maidens, slender and graceful in form, and robed in transparent gauze, floated through the dance, and sang of the happy life in the garden of paradise, where death never entered, and where all would bloom forever in immortal youth. Who acts: death, all. 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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 (death, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:140:220 # text = Beautiful maidens, slender and graceful in form, and robed in transparent gauze, floated through the dance, and sang of the happy life in the garden of paradise, where death never entered, and where all would bloom forever in immortal youth. 1 Beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 graceful graceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 robed robe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 transparent transparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 gauze gauze NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 floated float VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 paradise paradise NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 34 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 bloom bloom VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 43 forever forever ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 immortal immortal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **robe** | participle | | | | | | in transparent gauze | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in gauze=Theme | | 2 | **float** | participle | | transparent gauze *not said here* | | the dance | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dance=Trajectory | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | | | | the garden of paradise | | of the happy life | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | | 4 | **not** **enter** | past | death | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bloom** | would | all | | | immortal youth | | forever *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in youth=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/219/) - next →: [sentence 221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/221/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)