--- title: In the centre, rose a castle apparently a mile long, with rows of co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the centre, rose a castle apparently a mile long, with rows of columns, rising one above another, while, around it, palm-trees waved and flowers bloomed as large as mill wheels. Who acts: palm trees. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Wild Swans, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/) / 41 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 41 In the centre, rose a castle apparently a mile long, with rows of columns, rising one above another, while, around it, palm-trees waved and flowers bloomed as large as mill wheels. **Who acts:** palm trees · **What happens:** rise, wave, bloom · **To what, where:** castle, centre, one, another, flowers This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (palm trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:209:41 # text = In the centre, rose a castle apparently a mile long, with rows of columns, rising one above another, while, around it, palm-trees waved and flowers bloomed as large as mill wheels. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 apparently apparently ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 columns column NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 above above ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 around around ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 bloomed bloom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 as as ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | | a castle | | the centre | | with rows of columns | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location castle=Theme | | 2 | **rise** | gerund | | one | | another | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | | 3 | **wave** | past | palm trees | flowers | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 4 | **bloom** | participle | | flowers *not said here* | | | | large *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/42/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/)