--- title: He mixed up together songs of praise with lying epitaphs, as many as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He mixed up together songs of praise with lying epitaphs, as many as he could find, boiled them in tears shed by envy; put upon them rouge, which he had scraped from faded cheeks, and from these he produced a maiden, in form and appearance like the blind girl, the angel of completeness, as men calle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/221/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/) / 221 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 221 He mixed up together songs of praise with lying epitaphs, as many as he could find, boiled them in tears shed by envy; put upon them rouge, which he had scraped from faded cheeks, and from these he produced a maiden, in form and appearance like the blind girl, the angel of completeness, as men called her. **Who acts:** God, lying epitaphs, men, praise · **What happens:** mix up, lie, find, boil, shed, put · **To what, where:** songs, bubbles, tears, rouge, faded cheeks, maiden form · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (God, lying epitaphs, men, praise), 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:pg27200:143:221 # text = He mixed up together songs of praise with lying epitaphs, as many as he could find, boiled them in tears shed by envy; put upon them rouge, which he had scraped from faded cheeks, and from these he produced a maiden, in form and appearance like the blind girl, the angel of completeness, as men called her. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 mixed mix VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 epitaphs epitaph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 shed shed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 envy envy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 rouge rouge NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 scraped scrape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 faded fade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 44 obl _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 46 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 52 like like ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 completeness completeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 as as SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 63 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 nsubj _ _ 64 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 65 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix up** | past | God | songs of praise with lying epitaphs | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | could | God | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **boil** | participle | lying epitaphs *not said here* | bubbles *= bubble* | | | | in tears | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in tear=Instrument | | 5 | **shed** | participle | | tears *not said here* | | | | by envy | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 6 | **put** | participle | God *not said here* | rouge | | | | upon bubbles *= bubble* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rouge=Theme upon they=Destination | | 7 | **scrape** | past · perfect · passive | | rouge | | faded cheeks | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Patient from cheek=Source | | 8 | **fade** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **produce** | past | God | a maiden form and appearance like the blind girl and the angel of completeness | | these | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent form=Result from this=Material | | 10 | **call** | past | men | | angel | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 11 | **sing** | | praise with lying epitaphs | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/220/) - next →: [sentence 222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/222/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)