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title: The first led him to a dark, narrow prison, in which sat a prisoner,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The first led him to a dark, narrow prison, in which sat a prisoner, a beautiful woman, daughter of Christian the Fourth, Eleanor Ulfeld, and the flame became a rose on her bosom, and its blossoms were not more pure than the heart of this noblest and best of all Danish women. " Who acts: first, flam
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 25

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The first led him to a dark, narrow prison, in which sat a prisoner, a beautiful woman, daughter of Christian the Fourth, Eleanor Ulfeld, and the flame became a rose on her bosom, and its blossoms were not more pure than the heart of this noblest and best of all Danish women. "

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**Who acts:** first, flame, blossoms, Ulfeld · **What happens:** lead, sit, become, be, bosom · **To what, where:** Denmark, dark narrow prison, prisoner, rose

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, flame, blossoms, Ulfeld), 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:pg27200:50:25
# text = The first led him to a dark, narrow prison, in which sat a prisoner, a beautiful woman, daughter of Christian the Fourth, Eleanor Ulfeld, and the flame became a rose on her bosom, and its blossoms were not more pure than the heart of this noblest and best of all Danish women. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Eleanor	Eleanor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Ulfeld	Ulfeld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
47	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	parataxis	_	_
48	than	than	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	nmod	_	_
53	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	47	conj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	53	advmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	det	_	_
58	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the first | Denmark |  | a dark narrow prison |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past |  | a prisoner |  |  |  | Eleanor Ulfeld *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prisoner=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the flame | a rose on Ulfeld's bosom |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | bosom's blossoms |  |  |  |  | than the heart of this; pure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | bosom's blossoms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bosom** |  | Ulfeld |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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