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title: It had been changed into the purest gold--into gold that constantly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It had been changed into the purest gold--into gold that constantly grew and expanded into flowers and fruit of immortal beauty. Who acts: gold. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 200

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It had been changed into the purest gold--into gold that constantly grew and expanded into flowers and fruit of immortal beauty.

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**Who acts:** gold · **What happens:** change, grow, expand · **To what, where:** life, purest gold, flowers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold), 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:pg27200:177:200
# text = It had been changed into the purest gold--into gold that constantly grew and expanded into flowers and fruit of immortal beauty.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	expanded	expand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · perfect · passive |  | life |  |  |  | into the purest gold *result*; into gold *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into gold=Result |
| 2 | **grow** | past | gold |  |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **expand** | past | gold *not said here* |  |  | flowers and fruit of immortal beauty |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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