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title: The silver and gold which is plentiful in the hill will be polished… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The silver and gold which is plentiful in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight." Who acts: silver. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 8

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The silver and gold which is plentiful in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight."

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**Who acts:** silver · **What happens:** be, polish, place out · **To what, where:** hill, silver, moonlight

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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 (silver), 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:pg27200:31:8
# text = The silver and gold which is plentiful in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the silver and gold |  |  | the hill |  | plentiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **polish** | future · passive |  | the silver and gold |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **place out** | participle |  |  |  | the moonlight |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in moonlight=Destination |

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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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