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title: Over the door hung a painting of the Virgin Mary, fresh alpine roses… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the door hung a painting of the Virgin Mary, fresh alpine roses and a burning lamp stood near it. Who acts: door, fresh alpine roses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 8

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Over the door hung a painting of the Virgin Mary, fresh alpine roses and a burning lamp stood near it.

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**Who acts:** door, fresh alpine roses · **What happens:** hang, burn, stand · **To what, where:** painting, door

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, fresh alpine roses), 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:pg27200:54:8
# text = Over the door hung a painting of the Virgin Mary, fresh alpine roses and a burning lamp stood near it.
1	Over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	alpine	alpine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the door | a painting of the Virgin Mary |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Patient |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | fresh alpine roses and a burning lamp |  |  | door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near it=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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