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title: A large gilt frame surrounded it, and on one corner of the frame a l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A large gilt frame surrounded it, and on one corner of the frame a laurel wreath had been hung; but a black band, twined unseen among the green leaves, and a streamer of crape, hung down from it; for within the last few days the young artist had--died. Who acts: large gilt frame, young artist. A sen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 195

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A large gilt frame surrounded it, and on one corner of the frame a laurel wreath had been hung; but a black band, twined unseen among the green leaves, and a streamer of crape, hung down from it; for within the last few days the young artist had--died.

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**Who acts:** large gilt frame, young artist · **What happens:** surround, hang, twine, hang down, have, die · **To what, where:** frame, laurel wreath, one corner, streamer, last few days

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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 (large gilt frame, young artist), 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:pg27200:89:195
# text = A large gilt frame surrounded it, and on one corner of the frame a laurel wreath had been hung; but a black band, twined unseen among the green leaves, and a streamer of crape, hung down from it; for within the last few days the young artist had--died.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gilt	gilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
5	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	twined	twine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	streamer	streamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
46	within	within	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle | a large gilt frame *not said here* | frame |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | past · perfect · passive |  | a laurel wreath |  | one corner of the frame |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on corner=Destination |
| 3 | **twine** | past | a large gilt frame |  |  |  |  | unseen *property* | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hang down** | participle · passive |  | a streamer of crape |  | frame | day |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | the young artist | the last few days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient |
| 6 | **die** | past | the young artist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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