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title: In the middle of the floor stood a throne supported by four skeleton… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the floor stood a throne supported by four skeleton horses, whose harness had been made by fiery-red spiders. Who acts: fiery spiders. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 104

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In the middle of the floor stood a throne supported by four skeleton horses, whose harness had been made by fiery-red spiders.

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**Who acts:** fiery spiders · **What happens:** stand, support, make · **To what, where:** throne, middle, harness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiery spiders), 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:pg27200:197:104
# text = In the middle of the floor stood a throne supported by four skeleton horses, whose harness had been made by fiery-red spiders.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a throne |  | the middle of the floor |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent throne=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 2 | **support** | participle |  | a throne *not said here* |  |  |  | by four skeleton horses | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | fiery spiders | harness |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

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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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