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title: It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars, like the Grecian temple; bells in every story; and was crowned with cupolas, green and gilded, like those of the Kremlin of the Czar. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 112

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It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars, like the Grecian temple; bells in every story; and was crowned with cupolas, green and gilded, like those of the Kremlin of the Czar.

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**What happens:** carve, crown, gild · **To what, where:** carriage

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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: 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:pg27200:146:112
# text = It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars, like the Grecian temple; bells in every story; and was crowned with cupolas, green and gilded, like those of the Kremlin of the Czar.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Kremlin	Kremlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Czar	Czar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past · perfect · passive |  | carriage |  |  |  | like the Norwegian church; marble pillars and the Grecian temple *obl*; bells in every story *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary work=Product |
| 2 | **crown** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with cupolas; like those | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with cupola=Theme |
| 3 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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