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title: In the Champ de Mars, however, these were to be seen more splendid,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Champ de Mars, however, these were to be seen more splendid, more wonderful than in the East, for human art had converted the airy deceptive scenes into reality. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 92

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In the Champ de Mars, however, these were to be seen more splendid, more wonderful than in the East, for human art had converted the airy deceptive scenes into reality.

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**What happens:** see, convert · **To what, where:** these, airy deceptive scenes, reality

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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: 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:pg27200:24:92
# text = In the Champ de Mars, however, these were to be seen more splendid, more wonderful than in the East, for human art had converted the airy deceptive scenes into reality.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Champ	Champ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	converted	convert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	deceptive	deceptive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | these |  |  |  | however, splendid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **convert** | past · perfect |  | the airy deceptive scenes |  |  |  | into reality *result*; for human art | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent scene=Patient into reality=Result |

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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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