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title: The large hall within the elf hill was splendidly decorated; the flo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The large hall within the elf hill was splendidly decorated; the floor had been washed with moonshine, and the walls had been rubbed with magic ointment, so that they glowed like tulip-leaves in the light. Who acts: walls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 22

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The large hall within the elf hill was splendidly decorated; the floor had been washed with moonshine, and the walls had been rubbed with magic ointment, so that they glowed like tulip-leaves in the light.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** decorate, wash, rub, glow · **To what, where:** large hall, floor, walls, light

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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:pg27200:31:22
# text = The large hall within the elf hill was splendidly decorated; the floor had been washed with moonshine, and the walls had been rubbed with magic ointment, so that they glowed like tulip-leaves in the light.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	tulip	tulip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | past · passive |  | the large hall within the elf hill |  |  |  | splendidly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **wash** | past · perfect · passive |  | the floor |  |  |  | with moonshine | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with moonshine=Instrument |
| 3 | **rub** | past · perfect · passive |  | the walls |  |  |  | with magic ointment | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ointment=Theme |
| 4 | **glow** | past | walls *= wall* |  |  | the light |  | like tulip leaves | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |

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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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