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title: In the autumn, an eagle, standing upon a pyramid, saw a stately trai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the autumn, an eagle, standing upon a pyramid, saw a stately train of richly laden camels, and men attired in armor on foaming Arabian steeds, whose glossy skins shone like silver, their nostrils were pink, and their thick, flowing manes hung almost to their slender legs. Who acts: eagle, men, no
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 53

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In the autumn, an eagle, standing upon a pyramid, saw a stately train of richly laden camels, and men attired in armor on foaming Arabian steeds, whose glossy skins shone like silver, their nostrils were pink, and their thick, flowing manes hung almost to their slender legs.

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**Who acts:** eagle, men, nostrils · **What happens:** stand, see, lade, attire, foam, shine · **To what, where:** pyramid, stately train, Arabian steeds, glossy skins, flowing manes

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, men, nostrils), 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:pg27200:88:53
# text = In the autumn, an eagle, standing upon a pyramid, saw a stately train of richly laden camels, and men attired in armor on foaming Arabian steeds, whose glossy skins shone like silver, their nostrils were pink, and their thick, flowing manes hung almost to their slender legs.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	_
35	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	amod	_	_
49	manes	manis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
50	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
51	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | a eagle *not said here* |  |  | a pyramid |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pyramid=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | a stately train of laden camels |  |  | autumn |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer train=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **attire** | participle | men |  |  |  |  | in armor | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in armor=Theme |
| 5 | **foam** | gerund | men *not said here* | Arabian steeds |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location steed=Theme |
| 6 | **shine** | participle |  | Arabian steeds's glossy skins *not said here* |  |  |  | like silver | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | men's nostrils |  |  |  |  | pink *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **hang** | participle |  | flowing manes *not said here* |  |  |  | to men's slender legs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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