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title: But the most beautiful of all was the castle, drawn on one of the le… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the most beautiful of all was the castle, drawn on one of the leaves, and which he called "Emily's Castle." 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 109

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But the most beautiful of all was the castle, drawn on one of the leaves, and which he called "Emily's Castle."

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** be, draw, call · **To what, where:** castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg27200:146:109
# text = But the most beautiful of all was the castle, drawn on one of the leaves, and which he called "Emily's Castle."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of all castle | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | all castle *not said here* |  |  |  | on one of the leaves | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on one=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | past | George |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |

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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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