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title: And in his haughtiness and foolish presumption he ordered a magnific… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 17

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And in his haughtiness and foolish presumption he ordered a magnificent ship to be constructed, with which he could sail through the air; it was gorgeously fitted out and of many colours; like the tail of a peacock, it was covered with thousands of eyes, but each eye was the barrel of a gun.

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**Who acts:** God, eye · **What happens:** order, construct, sail, fit out, cover, be · **To what, where:** magnificent ship, haughtiness, air, ship, barrel

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, eye), 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:pg27200:207:17
# text = And in his haughtiness and foolish presumption he ordered a magnificent ship to be constructed, with which he could sail through the air; it was gorgeously fitted out and of many colours; like the tail of a peacock, it was covered with thousands of eyes, but each eye was the barrel of a gun.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	haughtiness	haughtiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	presumption	presumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	gorgeously	gorgeously	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	det	_	_
53	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | God | a magnificent ship |  | God's haughtiness and foolish presumption |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **construct** | to-infinitive · passive | God *not said here* | a magnificent ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **sail** | could | God |  |  | the air |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fit out** | past · passive |  | ship |  |  |  | gorgeously *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **cover** | past · passive |  | ship |  |  |  | like the tail of a peacock; with thousands of eyes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with thousand=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | each eye | the barrel |  |  |  | of a gun | 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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