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title: A single ruined wall is shown as the remains of St. Peter's, but the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A single ruined wall is shown as the remains of St. Peter's, but there is a doubt if this ruin be genuine. Who acts: doubt, ruin. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 23

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A single ruined wall is shown as the remains of St. Peter's, but there is a doubt if this ruin be genuine.

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**Who acts:** doubt, ruin · **What happens:** ruin, show, be · **To what, where:** single ruined wall, doubt

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, ruin), 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:pg27200:191:23
# text = A single ruined wall is shown as the remains of St. Peter's, but there is a doubt if this ruin be genuine.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present · passive |  | a single ruined wall |  |  |  | as the remains of Peter  St. | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** | present | a doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | this ruin | a doubt *not said here* |  |  |  | genuine *property* | 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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