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title: Splendid gilded cupolas rose over the roof, and between the pillars… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Splendid gilded cupolas rose over the roof, and between the pillars that surrounded the whole building stood life-like statues of marble. Who acts: Splendid gilded cupolas, pillars. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 38

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Splendid gilded cupolas rose over the roof, and between the pillars that surrounded the whole building stood life-like statues of marble.

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**Who acts:** Splendid gilded cupolas, pillars · **What happens:** gild, rise, surround, stand · **To what, where:** roof, pillars, like statues

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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 (Splendid gilded cupolas, pillars), 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:pg27200:76:38
# text = Splendid gilded cupolas rose over the roof, and between the pillars that surrounded the whole building stood life-like statues of marble.
1	Splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rise** | past | Splendid gilded cupolas |  |  | the roof |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over roof=Location |
| 3 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | the pillars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the pillars | like statues of marble |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus |

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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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