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title: But in India, in the castle on the Tree of the Sun, all was solitary… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in India, in the castle on the Tree of the Sun, all was solitary and still, since the brothers had gone away one after the other. Who acts: all, brothers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 177

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But in India, in the castle on the Tree of the Sun, all was solitary and still, since the brothers had gone away one after the other.

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**Who acts:** all, brothers · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** India

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, brothers), 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:pg27200:143:177
# text = But in India, in the castle on the Tree of the Sun, all was solitary and still, since the brothers had gone away one after the other.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all |  |  | India |  | solitary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the brothers |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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