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title: It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible, and yet obtain no gold. 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 96

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It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible, and yet obtain no gold.

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**What happens:** be, melt away, make, obtain · **To what, where:** these, making crucible, gold

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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: 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:pg27200:212:96
# text = It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible, and yet obtain no gold.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	crucible	crucible	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	obtain	obtain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **melt away** | to-infinitive |  | these |  | the making crucible |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient this=Result |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **obtain** | present |  | no gold |  |  | yet |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Theme |

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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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