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title: The gray walls, and the heavy clumsy-looking towers of the gloomy ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The gray walls, and the heavy clumsy-looking towers of the gloomy castle of Chillon, were reflected in the clear flood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 4

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The gray walls, and the heavy clumsy-looking towers of the gloomy castle of Chillon, were reflected in the clear flood.

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**What happens:** look, reflect · **To what, where:** gray walls, clear flood

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4671`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:66:4
# text = The gray walls, and the heavy clumsy-looking towers of the gloomy castle of Chillon, were reflected in the clear flood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	amod	_	_
11	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Chillon	Chillon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | the gray walls and the heavy clumsy looking towers of the gloomy castle of Chillon |  | the clear flood |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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