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title: Fragments of glass, climbing weeds, and remains of artichokes had ga… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Fragments of glass, climbing weeds, and remains of artichokes had gathered about it and sullied its purity; but under the surface the block was as white as the mountain snow; and from this block the Psyche was to arise." Who acts: block, Psyche. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen»
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 43

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Fragments of glass, climbing weeds, and remains of artichokes had gathered about it and sullied its purity; but under the surface the block was as white as the mountain snow; and from this block the Psyche was to arise."

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**Who acts:** block, Psyche · **What happens:** climb, gather, sully, be · **To what, where:** remains, purity, surface, block

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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, Psyche), 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:pg27200:151:43
# text = Fragments of glass, climbing weeds, and remains of artichokes had gathered about it and sullied its purity; but under the surface the block was as white as the mountain snow; and from this block the Psyche was to arise."
1	Fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	artichokes	artichoke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sullied	sully	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	purity	purity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive |  | remains of artichokes |  |  |  | about glass | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sully** | past |  | glass's purity |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme purity=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the block |  |  | the surface |  | as the mountain snow; white *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Psyche |  |  | this block |  | arise *property* | tree rules |

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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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