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title: He erected magnificent palaces, churches, and halls, and all who saw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He erected magnificent palaces, churches, and halls, and all who saw these splendid buildings and great treasures exclaimed admiringly: "What a mighty prince!" Who acts: fortune, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 6

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He erected magnificent palaces, churches, and halls, and all who saw these splendid buildings and great treasures exclaimed admiringly: "What a mighty prince!"

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**Who acts:** fortune, all · **What happens:** erect, see, exclaim · **To what, where:** magnificent palaces, splendid buildings

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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 (fortune, all), 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:pg27200:207:6
# text = He erected magnificent palaces, churches, and halls, and all who saw these splendid buildings and great treasures exclaimed admiringly: "What a mighty prince!"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	erected	erect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	admiringly	admiringly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	28	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erect** | past | fortune | magnificent palaces and churches and halls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | this splendid buildings and great treasures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer building=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | all |  |  |  |  | admiringly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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