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title: It was built of bright yellow shining stone, with long flights of ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was built of bright yellow shining stone, with long flights of marble steps, one of which reached quite down to the sea. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 37

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It was built of bright yellow shining stone, with long flights of marble steps, one of which reached quite down to the sea.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** build, shine, reach · **To what, where:** palace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg27200:5502`): 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:pg27200:76:37
# text = It was built of bright yellow shining stone, with long flights of marble steps, one of which reached quite down to the sea.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	amod	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	flights	flight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nmod	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | palace |  |  |  | of bright yellow shining stone; with long flights of marble steps | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with flight=Source |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | one |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** 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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