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title: He drew two Grecian temples with slender marble pillars, and with st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He drew two Grecian temples with slender marble pillars, and with steps all round them. Who acts: George. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 106

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He drew two Grecian temples with slender marble pillars, and with steps all round them.

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** draw, round · **To what, where:** two Grecian temples, temples

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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), 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:pg27200:146:106
# text = He drew two Grecian temples with slender marble pillars, and with steps all round them.
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	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	round	round	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | two Grecian temples |  |  |  | with slender marble pillars | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Theme |
| 2 | **round** | present | George *not said here* | temples *= temple* |  |  |  | with steps; all *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with step=Instrument |

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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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