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title: She had gone to the marble sphinx in the desert, shaking the sand fr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had gone to the marble sphinx in the desert, shaking the sand from her sandals, and then passed through the long passage, which leads to the centre of one of the great pyramids, where the mighty kings of antiquity, surrounded with pomp and splendor, lie veiled in the form of mummies. Who acts: p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 104

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She had gone to the marble sphinx in the desert, shaking the sand from her sandals, and then passed through the long passage, which leads to the centre of one of the great pyramids, where the mighty kings of antiquity, surrounded with pomp and splendor, lie veiled in the form of mummies.

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**Who acts:** princess, long passage, pomp · **What happens:** go, shake, pass, lead, surround, lie · **To what, where:** marble sphinx, sand, sandals, long passage, mighty kings, mummies

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (princess, long passage, pomp), 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:pg27200:84:104
# text = She had gone to the marble sphinx in the desert, shaking the sand from her sandals, and then passed through the long passage, which leads to the centre of one of the great pyramids, where the mighty kings of antiquity, surrounded with pomp and splendor, lie veiled in the form of mummies.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sphinx	sphinx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:agent	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
53	veiled	veil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	xcomp	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	mummies	mummy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | princess |  |  | the marble sphinx in the desert |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sphinx=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund | princess *not said here* | the sand |  | princess's sandals |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sand=Theme from sandal=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pass** | past |  |  |  | the long passage | then |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through passage=Location |
| 4 | **lead** | present | the long passage |  |  |  |  | to the centre of one of the great pyramids | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to centre=Patient |
| 5 | **surround** | participle · passive | pomp and splendor | the mighty kings of antiquity |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **lie** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **veil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in the form of mummies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in form=Theme |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | mummies |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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