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title: A block of marble soon appeared, a rounded shoulder was laid bare; a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A block of marble soon appeared, a rounded shoulder was laid bare; and now the spade was plied with a more careful hand, and presently a female head was seen, and butterflies' wings. Who acts: block. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 248

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A block of marble soon appeared, a rounded shoulder was laid bare; and now the spade was plied with a more careful hand, and presently a female head was seen, and butterflies' wings.

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**Who acts:** block · **What happens:** appear, round, lay, ply, see · **To what, where:** rounded shoulder, spade, female head

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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 (block), 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:pg27200:151:248
# text = A block of marble soon appeared, a rounded shoulder was laid bare; and now the spade was plied with a more careful hand, and presently a female head was seen, and butterflies' wings.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	plied	ply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a block of marble |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **round** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive |  | a rounded shoulder |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **ply** | past · passive |  | the spade |  |  | now | with a careful hand | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with hand=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past · passive |  | a female head |  |  |  | butterflies's wings *obl*; presently *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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