--- title: Coloured pictures gleamed from their golden background, and on the a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Coloured pictures gleamed from their golden background, and on the altar stood the figure of the Virgin with the child Jesus, surrounded by lights and flowers; priests in festive robes were chanting, and choir boys in dazzling attire swung silver censers. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coloured pictures, priests, choir boys), 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:pg27200:160:18 # text = Coloured pictures gleamed from their golden background, and on the altar stood the figure of the Virgin with the child Jesus, surrounded by lights and flowers; priests in festive robes were chanting, and choir boys in dazzling attire swung silver censers. 1 Coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 gleamed gleam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Virgin virgin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:agent _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 festive festive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 chanting chant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 choir choir NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 dazzling dazzling NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 attire attire NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 44 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 censers censer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gleam** | participle | | Coloured pictures *not said here* | | pictures's golden background | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | Coloured pictures | the figure of the Virgin with the child | | the altar | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent figure=Theme on altar=Destination | | 3 | **surround** | participle | | Jesus *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **chant** | past · progressive | priests in festive robes | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **swing** | past | choir boys in dazzling attire | silver censers | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent censer=Theme | | 6 | **figure** | | | the Virgin with the child | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/160/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/160/19/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/160/)