--- title: He no longer carried the sharp sword, but a beautiful green branch,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He no longer carried the sharp sword, but a beautiful green branch, full of roses; with this he touched the ceiling, which rose up very high, and where he had touched it there shone a golden star. Who acts: God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg27200:154:96 # text = He no longer carried the sharp sword, but a beautiful green branch, full of roses; with this he touched the ceiling, which rose up very high, and where he had touched it there shone a golden star. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 no no ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | God | the sharp sword | | | | long *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 2 | **touch** | past | God | the ceiling | | | | with this | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ceiling=Experiencer with this=Instrument | | 3 | **rise up** | past | | | | | | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **touch** | past · perfect | God | ceiling | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 5 | **shine** | past | God *not said here* | a golden star | | there | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/97/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/)