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title: It still stands towering aloft on the heavy wagon which has brought… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It still stands towering aloft on the heavy wagon which has brought it this morning a distance of several miles to Paris. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 15

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It still stands towering aloft on the heavy wagon which has brought it this morning a distance of several miles to Paris.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** stand, tower, bring · **To what, where:** heavy wagon

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (tree), 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:pg27200:24:15
# text = It still stands towering aloft on the heavy wagon which has brought it this morning a distance of several miles to Paris.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | tree |  |  |  | still |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tower** | gerund | tree *not said here* |  |  | the heavy wagon |  | aloft *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wagon=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | the heavy wagon |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |

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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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