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title: They will come over to see the monuments and the great cities, which… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They will come over to see the monuments and the great cities, which will then be in ruins, just as we in our time make pilgrimages to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia. Who acts: inhabitants, great cities, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Tho
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 3

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They will come over to see the monuments and the great cities, which will then be in ruins, just as we in our time make pilgrimages to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, great cities, we · **What happens:** come over, see, be, make, totter · **To what, where:** monuments, ruins, pilgrimages

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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 (inhabitants, great cities, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:12959`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:191:3
# text = They will come over to see the monuments and the great cities, which will then be in ruins, just as we in our time make pilgrimages to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
28	pilgrimages	pilgrimage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	tottering	totter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	amod	_	_
32	splendors	splendor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come over** | future | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* | the monuments and the great cities |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monument=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | future | the great cities |  |  | ruins | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | we | pilgrimages |  |  | time | to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Product |
| 5 | **totter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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