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title: The wooden figure threw a gigantic shadow on the wall, and even on p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wooden figure threw a gigantic shadow on the wall, and even on part of the ceiling; it seemed as if the real Holger Danske stood behind it, for the shadow moved; but this was no doubt caused by the flame of the lamp not burning steadily. Who acts: wooden figure, it, real Holger Danske, shadow. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 43

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The wooden figure threw a gigantic shadow on the wall, and even on part of the ceiling; it seemed as if the real Holger Danske stood behind it, for the shadow moved; but this was no doubt caused by the flame of the lamp not burning steadily.

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**Who acts:** wooden figure, it, real Holger Danske, shadow, this, lamp · **What happens:** throw, seem, stand, move, be, cause · **To what, where:** gigantic shadow, wall, ceiling, doubt

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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 (wooden figure, it, real Holger Danske, shadow), 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:pg27200:50:43
# text = The wooden figure threw a gigantic shadow on the wall, and even on part of the ceiling; it seemed as if the real Holger Danske stood behind it, for the shadow moved; but this was no doubt caused by the flame of the lamp not burning steadily.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Holger	Holger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Danske	Danske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
41	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
42	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
51	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the wooden figure | a gigantic shadow |  | the wall |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on wall=Destination |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the real Holger Danske |  |  | ceiling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location |
| 4 | **move** | past | the shadow |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | this | no doubt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cause** | participle |  | no doubt *not said here* |  |  |  | by the flame of the lamp | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 7 | **not** **burn** | gerund | the lamp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | steadily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **flame** |  | the lamp |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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