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title: The pointed towers, the decorated and open cloisters, the stately co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pointed towers, the decorated and open cloisters, the stately columns, the white statues which smiled upon him from every corner and porch and arch,--all, even the church itself, seemed to him to have been formed from the snow of his native land. Who acts: white statues, all, pointed towers, nat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 100

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The pointed towers, the decorated and open cloisters, the stately columns, the white statues which smiled upon him from every corner and porch and arch,--all, even the church itself, seemed to him to have been formed from the snow of his native land.

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**Who acts:** white statues, all, pointed towers, native land · **What happens:** decorate, smile, church, seem, form, snow · **To what, where:** corner, church, master, snow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (white statues, all, pointed towers, native land), 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:pg27200:203:100
# text = The pointed towers, the decorated and open cloisters, the stately columns, the white statues which smiled upon him from every corner and porch and arch,--all, even the church itself, seemed to him to have been formed from the snow of his native land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	cloisters	cloister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
36	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	35	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
38	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smile** | past | the white statues |  |  | every corner and porch and arch |  | upon master | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **church** |  | all | church |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the pointed towers and the decorated cloisters and the church |  | master |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **form** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the pointed towers and the decorated cloisters and the church *not said here* |  |  | the snow of master's native land |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **snow** |  | master's native land |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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