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title: Great inscriptions in letters a yard long, and figures in various co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Great inscriptions in letters a yard long, and figures in various colors, covering the walls from cornice to basement, came brightly out. Who acts: various colors, Great inscriptions. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 23

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Great inscriptions in letters a yard long, and figures in various colors, covering the walls from cornice to basement, came brightly out.

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**Who acts:** various colors, Great inscriptions · **What happens:** cover, come · **To what, where:** walls, cornice

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (various colors, Great inscriptions), 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:pg27200:25:23
# text = Great inscriptions in letters a yard long, and figures in various colors, covering the walls from cornice to basement, came brightly out.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cornice	cornice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	basement	basement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | various colors *not said here* | the walls |  | cornice |  | to basement | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | Great inscriptions in letters |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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