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title: He drew the Czar's palace; the old Kremlin at Moscow, just as it sto… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He drew the Czar's palace; the old Kremlin at Moscow, just as it stood, with towers and cupolas; and these cupolas looked like gigantic green and gold cucumbers, at least in George's drawing. Who acts: George, palace, cupolas. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 103

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He drew the Czar's palace; the old Kremlin at Moscow, just as it stood, with towers and cupolas; and these cupolas looked like gigantic green and gold cucumbers, at least in George's drawing.

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**Who acts:** George, palace, cupolas · **What happens:** draw, stand, look · **To what, where:** palace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, palace, cupolas), 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:pg27200:146:103
# text = He drew the Czar's palace; the old Kremlin at Moscow, just as it stood, with towers and cupolas; and these cupolas looked like gigantic green and gold cucumbers, at least in George's drawing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Czar	Czar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Kremlin	Kremlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | George | the Czar's palace |  |  |  | the old Kremlin at Moscow *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | palace |  |  |  |  | with towers and cupolas | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | this cupolas |  |  |  |  | like gigantic green cucumbers; at least | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at least=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** |  | George |  |  |  |  |  | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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