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title: He threw the cloth over the statue, and then touched it once more to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He threw the cloth over the statue, and then touched it once more to unveil the form--but he was not able to look again at his own work. Who acts: glance. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 160

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He threw the cloth over the statue, and then touched it once more to unveil the form--but he was not able to look again at his own work.

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**Who acts:** glance · **What happens:** throw, touch, unveil, not be, look, work · **To what, where:** cloth, statue, form

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glance), 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:pg27200:151:160
# text = He threw the cloth over the statue, and then touched it once more to unveil the form--but he was not able to look again at his own work.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	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	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	unveil	unveil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | glance | the cloth |  | the statue |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over statue=Destination |
| 2 | **touch** | past | glance *not said here* | cloth |  |  | then |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **unveil** | to-infinitive | glance *not said here* | the form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | glance |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | glance *not said here* |  |  |  | again | at glance's own work | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at work=Theme |
| 6 | **work** |  | glance |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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