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title: A maiden of this kind is made altogether of wood, broad below, and g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A maiden of this kind is made altogether of wood, broad below, and girt round with iron rings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 3

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A maiden of this kind is made altogether of wood, broad below, and girt round with iron rings.

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**What happens:** make, girt · **To what, where:** maiden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. 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:pg27200:200:3
# text = A maiden of this kind is made altogether of wood, broad below, and girt round with iron rings.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	altogether	altogether	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	below	below	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	girt	girt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	round	round	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | a maiden of this kind |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product |
| 2 | **girt** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with iron rings; round *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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