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title: Some vessels, curiously formed of massive gold, had been brought hom… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Some vessels, curiously formed of massive gold, had been brought home among the booty. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 63

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Some vessels, curiously formed of massive gold, had been brought home among the booty.

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**What happens:** form, bring · **To what, where:** vessels

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:85:63
# text = Some vessels, curiously formed of massive gold, had been brought home among the booty.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	booty	booty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **form** | participle |  | some vessels *not said here* |  |  |  | of massive gold; curiously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | some vessels |  |  |  | among the booty; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |

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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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