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title: At last they came to a blue lake, and by the side of it, shaded by t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they came to a blue lake, and by the side of it, shaded by trees of the deepest green, stood a palace of dazzling white marble, built in the olden times. Who acts: swallow, palace. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 163

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At last they came to a blue lake, and by the side of it, shaded by trees of the deepest green, stood a palace of dazzling white marble, built in the olden times.

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**Who acts:** swallow, palace · **What happens:** come, shade, stand, dazzle, build · **To what, where:** last, palace, white marble

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow, palace), 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:pg27200:79:163
# text = At last they came to a blue lake, and by the side of it, shaded by trees of the deepest green, stood a palace of dazzling white marble, built in the olden times.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | past | swallow |  |  | last |  | to a blue lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shade** | participle | swallow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the side of side; by trees of the deepest green | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past | swallow *not said here* | a palace |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 4 | **dazzle** | gerund | a palace *not said here* | white marble |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus marble=Experiencer |
| 5 | **build** | participle |  | white marble *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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