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title: The chisel struck great fragments from it; the measurements were tak… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The chisel struck great fragments from it; the measurements were taken, points and lines were made, the mechanical part was executed, till gradually the stone assumed a human female form, a shape of beauty, and became converted into the Psyche, fair and glorious--a divine being in human shape. Who a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 62

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The chisel struck great fragments from it; the measurements were taken, points and lines were made, the mechanical part was executed, till gradually the stone assumed a human female form, a shape of beauty, and became converted into the Psyche, fair and glorious--a divine being in human shape.

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**Who acts:** chisel, stone · **What happens:** strike, take, make, execute, assume, convert · **To what, where:** great fragments, life, measurements, lines, mechanical part, human female 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 (chisel, stone), 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:pg27200:151:62
# text = The chisel struck great fragments from it; the measurements were taken, points and lines were made, the mechanical part was executed, till gradually the stone assumed a human female form, a shape of beauty, and became converted into the Psyche, fair and glorious--a divine being in human shape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chisel	chisel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	measurements	measurement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	converted	convert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Psyche	psyche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
54	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	acl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the chisel | great fragments |  | life |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | the measurements |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme point=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | lines |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **execute** | past · passive |  | the mechanical part |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **assume** | past | the stone | a human female form |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 6 | **convert** | past · passive | the chisel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the Psyche and a divine *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into psyche=Result |

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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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