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title: The many delicate forms concealed in summer by luxuriant foliage, we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The many delicate forms concealed in summer by luxuriant foliage, were now clearly defined, and looked like glittering lace-work. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 32

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The many delicate forms concealed in summer by luxuriant foliage, were now clearly defined, and looked like glittering lace-work.

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**What happens:** conceal, define, look, glitter · **To what, where:** many delicate forms, lace work

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:169:32
# text = The many delicate forms concealed in summer by luxuriant foliage, were now clearly defined, and looked like glittering lace-work.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | participle |  | the many delicate forms *not said here* |  |  | summer | by luxuriant foliage | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by foliage=Location |
| 2 | **define** | past · passive |  | the many delicate forms |  |  | now | clearly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **glitter** | gerund |  | lace work |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent work=Theme |

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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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