--- title: Like a great table on Christmas Eve, the Champ de Mars carried a won… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Like a great table on Christmas Eve, the Champ de Mars carried a wonder-castle of industry and art, and around this knickknacks from all countries had been ranged, knickknacks on a grand scale, for every nation found some remembrance of home. Who acts: Champ Mars, nation. 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C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Champ Mars, nation), 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:pg27200:24:101 # text = Like a great table on Christmas Eve, the Champ de Mars carried a wonder-castle of industry and art, and around this knickknacks from all countries had been ranged, knickknacks on a grand scale, for every nation found some remembrance of home. 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 Champ Champ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 industry industry NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 around around ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 knickknacks knickknack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 ranged range VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 knickknacks knickknack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 for for SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 remembrance remembrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | the Champ Mars | a wonder castle of industry and art | | | | like a great table on Christmas | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | | 2 | **range** | past · perfect · passive | the Champ Mars *not said here* | | | this knickknacks from all countries | | on a grand scale | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: around knickknack=Location | | 3 | **find** | past | every nation | some remembrance of home | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remembrance=Topic | | 4 | **remember** | | | home | | | | | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/24/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/24/102/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/24/)