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title: Now they are vanishing points in that new underground world--that wo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they are vanishing points in that new underground world--that wonder of the present day--the sewers of Paris. Who acts: CATACOMBS. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 25

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Now they are vanishing points in that new underground world--that wonder of the present day--the sewers of Paris.

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**Who acts:** CATACOMBS · **What happens:** vanish, wonder · **To what, where:** points, new underground world, present day

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CATACOMBS), 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:pg27200:26:25
# text = Now they are vanishing points in that new underground world--that wonder of the present day--the sewers of Paris.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sewers	sewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | present · progressive | CATACOMBS *= catacomb* | points |  | new underground world | now | the sewers of Paris *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** |  |  | the present day |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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