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title: The roof was covered with chips, bound together with tin plates, tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The roof was covered with chips, bound together with tin plates, that glittered in sunshine and in the moonlight. Who acts: tin plates. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 27

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The roof was covered with chips, bound together with tin plates, that glittered in sunshine and in the moonlight.

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**Who acts:** tin plates · **What happens:** cover, bind, glitter · **To what, where:** roof, sunshine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tin plates), 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:pg27200:55:27
# text = The roof was covered with chips, bound together with tin plates, that glittered in sunshine and in the moonlight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the roof |  |  |  | with chips | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with chip=Theme |
| 2 | **bind** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with tin plates; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with plate=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **glitter** | past | tin plates |  |  | sunshine and the moonlight |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=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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