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title: The war trumpet sounded; riding upon the rainbow, came the gods, cla… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The war trumpet sounded; riding upon the rainbow, came the gods, clad in steel, to fight their last battle on the last battle-field. Who acts: war trumpet, gods. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 74

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The war trumpet sounded; riding upon the rainbow, came the gods, clad in steel, to fight their last battle on the last battle-field.

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**Who acts:** war trumpet, gods · **What happens:** sound, ride, come, clad, fight, battle · **To what, where:** gods, steel, last battle, last battle field

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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 (war trumpet, gods), 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:pg27200:87:74
# text = The war trumpet sounded; riding upon the rainbow, came the gods, clad in steel, to fight their last battle on the last battle-field.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the war trumpet |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund | the war trumpet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the rainbow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past |  | the gods |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location god=Theme |
| 4 | **clad** | participle |  | the gods *not said here* |  | steel |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  | gods's last battle |  | the last battle field |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **battle** |  | gods *= god* |  |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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