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title: I observed the clefts and wrinkles in the stem; they shone forth in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I observed the clefts and wrinkles in the stem; they shone forth in strange colors, and took the form of hieroglyphics. Who acts: I, clefts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 28

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I observed the clefts and wrinkles in the stem; they shone forth in strange colors, and took the form of hieroglyphics.

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**Who acts:** I, clefts · **What happens:** observe, shine, take, form · **To what, where:** clefts, stem, strange colors, form, hieroglyphics

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, clefts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6407`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:87:28
# text = I observed the clefts and wrinkles in the stem; they shone forth in strange colors, and took the form of hieroglyphics.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clefts	cleft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hieroglyphics	hieroglyphic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past | I | the clefts and wrinkles |  | the stem |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cleft=Topic |
| 2 | **shine** | past | clefts *= cleft* |  |  | strange colors |  | forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in color=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past | clefts *= cleft* *not said here* | the form of hieroglyphics |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | hieroglyphics |  |  |  |  | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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