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title: "The ropes were of silk, the anchor of gold, And everywhere riches a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The ropes were of silk, the anchor of gold, And everywhere riches and pomp untold," Who acts: ropes, riches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 11

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"The ropes were of silk, the anchor of gold, And everywhere riches and pomp untold,"

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**Who acts:** ropes, riches · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ropes, riches), 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:pg27200:163:11
# text = "The ropes were of silk, the anchor of gold, And everywhere riches and pomp untold,"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	untold	untold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the ropes |  |  |  |  | of silk and the anchor of gold | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | riches and pomp |  |  |  |  |  | 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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