--- title: All around stood figures of the most beautiful stone--that could be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: All around stood figures of the most beautiful stone--that could be seen in their clothes as well as in their faces; every flower-bed had a different shape, and represented a fish, or a coat of arms, or a monogram. Who acts: flower bed. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower bed), 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:pg27200:147:55 # text = All around stood figures of the most beautiful stone--that could be seen in their clothes as well as in their faces; every flower-bed had a different shape, and represented a fish, or a coat of arms, or a monogram. 1 All all ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 around around ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 14 obl _ _ 18 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 23 cc _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 fixed _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 26 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 represented represent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 monogram monogram NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | figures of the beautiful stone | | | | all, around *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | could · passive | | figures of the beautiful stone | | figures's clothes | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | past | every flower bed | a different shape | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | | 4 | **represent** | past | | a fish | | | | a coat of arms *obl*; a monogram *obl* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme | | 5 | **figure** | | | the beautiful stone | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/147/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/147/56/) - ↑ back to [The Porter's Son, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/147/)