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title: It was glorious; but most glorious of all when the old clergyman sat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was glorious; but most glorious of all when the old clergyman sat under the oak tree and talked of France, and of the great deeds of her sons and daughters, whose names will be mentioned with admiration through all time. Who acts: industry, old clergyman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 32

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It was glorious; but most glorious of all when the old clergyman sat under the oak tree and talked of France, and of the great deeds of her sons and daughters, whose names will be mentioned with admiration through all time.

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**Who acts:** industry, old clergyman · **What happens:** be, sit, talk, mention · **To what, where:** oak tree, names

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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 (industry, old clergyman), 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:pg27200:24:32
# text = It was glorious; but most glorious of all when the old clergyman sat under the oak tree and talked of France, and of the great deeds of her sons and daughters, whose names will be mentioned with admiration through all time.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	through	through	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	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 | industry |  |  |  |  | glorious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | industry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of all | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the old clergyman |  |  | the oak tree |  | of the great deeds of clergyman's sons and daughters | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 4 | **talk** | past | the old clergyman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of France | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mention** *speech: other* | future · passive |  | names |  |  | time | with admiration | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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