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title: He stood erect, and held high in the air the brittle glass that cont… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood erect, and held high in the air the brittle glass that contained his costly treasure. ' Who acts: fire, brittle glass. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 135

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He stood erect, and held high in the air the brittle glass that contained his costly treasure. '

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**Who acts:** fire, brittle glass · **What happens:** stand, hold, contain, treasure · **To what, where:** brittle glass, air, costly treasure

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, brittle glass), 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:pg27200:212:135
# text = He stood erect, and held high in the air the brittle glass that contained his costly treasure. '
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	brittle	brittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | fire |  |  |  |  | erect *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | participle | fire *not said here* | the brittle glass |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Theme in air=Location |
| 3 | **contain** | past | the brittle glass | fire's costly treasure |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **treasure** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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