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title: Through the clear crystal of the lofty windows could be seen noble r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the clear crystal of the lofty windows could be seen noble rooms, with costly silk curtains and hangings of tapestry; while the walls were covered with beautiful paintings which were a pleasure to look at. Who acts: beautiful paintings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 39

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Through the clear crystal of the lofty windows could be seen noble rooms, with costly silk curtains and hangings of tapestry; while the walls were covered with beautiful paintings which were a pleasure to look at.

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**Who acts:** beautiful paintings · **What happens:** see, cover, be, look · **To what, where:** noble rooms, clear crystal, walls, pleasure

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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 (beautiful paintings), 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:pg27200:76:39
# text = Through the clear crystal of the lofty windows could be seen noble rooms, with costly silk curtains and hangings of tapestry; while the walls were covered with beautiful paintings which were a pleasure to look at.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could · passive |  | noble rooms and costly silk curtains and hangings of tapestry |  | the clear crystal of the lofty windows |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: room=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the walls |  |  |  | with beautiful paintings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with painting=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | beautiful paintings | a pleasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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