--- title: They had, on their long journey, seen more durable characters engrav… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They had, on their long journey, seen more durable characters engraven on rocks, and on the walls of the temples in Hindostan, mighty deeds of great kings, immortal names, so old that no one now could read or speak them. Who acts: swallows, long journey, one. 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C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows, long journey, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:39:22 # text = They had, on their long journey, seen more durable characters engraven on rocks, and on the walls of the temples in Hindostan, mighty deeds of great kings, immortal names, so old that no one now could read or speak them. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 11 durable durable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 engraven engraven NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 temples temple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Hindostan Hindostan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 immortal immortal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 40 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 42 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 conj _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | swallows *= swallow* | swallows's long journey | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient | | 2 | **see** | participle | swallows's long journey *not said here* | durable characters | | rocks and the walls of the temples in Hindostan and mighty deeds of great kings and immortal names | | | tree rules | | 3 | **read** | could | no one | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | no one *not said here* | swallows *= swallow* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **journey** | | swallows *= swallow* | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/23/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/)