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title: The painted coats-of-arms on the old council-house shone like transp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The painted coats-of-arms on the old council-house shone like transparent pictures, and Michael Angelo's David tossed his sling; it was as if everything had life. Who acts: painted coats, sling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 16

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The painted coats-of-arms on the old council-house shone like transparent pictures, and Michael Angelo's David tossed his sling; it was as if everything had life.

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**Who acts:** painted coats, sling · **What happens:** paint, shine, toss, be · **To what, where:** old council house, sling

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (painted coats, sling), 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:pg27200:89:16
# text = The painted coats-of-arms on the old council-house shone like transparent pictures, and Michael Angelo's David tossed his sling; it was as if everything had life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shine** | participle |  | the old council house *not said here* |  |  |  | like transparent pictures | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **toss** | past | the painted coats of arms on the old council house | David's sling |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sling=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | sling |  |  |  |  | have *property* | tree rules |

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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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