--- title: He appeared to her a mighty magician skilled in secret arts; his lan… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He appeared to her a mighty magician skilled in secret arts; his language was the darkest magic to her, and the movements of his hands in the air were as the secret signs of a magician's wand. Who acts: man, language, movements. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, language, movements), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:86:20 # text = He appeared to her a mighty magician skilled in secret arts; his language was the darkest magic to her, and the movements of his hands in the air were as the secret signs of a magician's wand. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 skilled skill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 arts art NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 darkest dark ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | man | a mighty magician | action | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location magician=Theme | | 2 | **skill** | participle | | a mighty magician *not said here* | | secret arts | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | man's language | the darkest magic | action | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the movements of man's hands in the air | | | | | as the secret signs; of a magician's wand | tree rules | | 5 | **move** | | | man's hands in the air | | | | | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/21/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/)